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... image in a great poem explains only itself , Octavio Paz says , " Meaning and image are the same thing . A poem has no meaning other than its images . " The translator is caught up by images and rhythms , seduced by them , and becomes a ...
... image in a great poem explains only itself , Octavio Paz says , " Meaning and image are the same thing . A poem has no meaning other than its images . " The translator is caught up by images and rhythms , seduced by them , and becomes a ...
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... images , when " super- imposed , " both " clarified and amplified one another " with a resultant feeling of having closely seen a single emerging image . Remembering years later , he wrote in Gaudier - Brzeska , “ I found it useful in ...
... images , when " super- imposed , " both " clarified and amplified one another " with a resultant feeling of having closely seen a single emerging image . Remembering years later , he wrote in Gaudier - Brzeska , “ I found it useful in ...
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... images might be arranged very much like Bly's - the " telling " images contrasting with the " showing " images . The opening line flirts dangerously with the cliché , " It was a dark and stormy night , " but veers quickly away into ...
... images might be arranged very much like Bly's - the " telling " images contrasting with the " showing " images . The opening line flirts dangerously with the cliché , " It was a dark and stormy night , " but veers quickly away into ...
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The Necessity to Speak | 3 |
Orthodox Heterodox Paradox | 15 |
The Degradation of Money | 27 |
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