another poem question: death to modifiers
May 10, 2022 3:09 PM Subscribe
Who is "the man" who said "all forms tend toward blur" in this poem by Diane Suess?
I like this poem. It's I Look Up from My Book and Out at the World through Reading Glasses by Diane Suess.
Is "the man" in the final line a reference to something specific? I've tried googling variations on the phrase and am not coming up with much.
I like this poem. It's I Look Up from My Book and Out at the World through Reading Glasses by Diane Suess.
Is "the man" in the final line a reference to something specific? I've tried googling variations on the phrase and am not coming up with much.
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Chardin and the Text of Still Life by Norman Bryson. Critical Inquiry, Winter 1989, Vol. 15, No. 2. (jstor)
The specific reference is on page 243 - the quotation below gives a lot more context to what Bryson is talking about with that particular phrase: It looks like the article and the book both include very similar content - just re-worked a bit to fit different contexts. Here is another link to the full text of Bryson's book (same one that esmerelda_jenkins linked above): Norman Bryson, Looking At The Overlooked: Four Essays On Still Life Painting (NB - that link might be a bit sketchy)
Altogether it looks like a very interesting article/book, poem, and topic - thanks for bringing it all up!
posted by flug at 11:09 PM on May 10, 2022