infinity?
Stand between two mirrors.
Get lost in yourself
"Believe without belief, beyond belief." - Stevens
Respond to somebody else's blog in your blog!
"Incantation"
Memorize the entirety of "The Idea of Order at Key West"
"Your (final) project should communicate to us that you have made a discovery... It should make you go 'Oh!' or 'Ah!'" - Dr. Sexson
Themes in TIoOaKW?
Literary Criticism - The Mirror and the Lamp by M. H. Abrams
"The Man With the Blue Guitar" - Stevens
Four items in every work of art:
1) The work itself. (New Criticism)
2) The artist.
3) What the art is about.
4) The audience.
Stevens gives us two forms of literary criticism in TIoOaKW.
D: Mimesis
"imitation"
"mimic" in TIoOaKW
Plato -
Pen (as a work of art):
Representation of facsimile
Plato's theory of eternal form
D: Poiesis
"creation"
Kenosis versus pleurosis (pleroma?)
HW: Open up your Stevens book at random and answer the question "What am I reading about?", the real subject matter. Poetry itself.
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