Hugh Kenner on a poem's "effect"
 

Kenner's "effect"--
"an effect being something hypnotic that we cannot quite understand"
 
impacted by:
the "extra-semantic affinities" of words
the "structure of words, where the words exchange dynamisms in the ecology of language"
the "chemistry of Language [which] supersedes meaning"
the "characteristic force fields" of Language
 
quotes selected by Joan Retallack in Parnassus

> tagged with #meaning, #poetics

> created Apr 3, 2025 at 11:53:24 AM


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