in The Well-Wrought Urn, Cleanth Brooks observes how poetry makes use of "discordant attributes" (Levine's wording, 29)
but also poetry can generate “insight which preserves the unity of experience and which, at its higher and more serious levels, triumphs over the apparently contradictory and conflicting elements of experience by unifying them into a new pattern”
the eponymous "urn"
> from Caroline Levine's Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network (2015)
> tagged with #order, #poetics, #pattern
> created Nov 26, 2024 at 7:50:40 PM
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