Fitzgerald's TN

[alice wellintown]

> See Schiller 's distinction in On Naive and Sentimental Poetry in which one way to reduce his rich reflections, and I know it is an oversimplification and that the polarity is not binary, is to see/
> sort many writers into those with " natural" metaphors and few literary/notional allusions and those self-consciously full of such.
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> That is the kind of crammed into every sentence meaning I was referring to re Mackin's observation.

Ah, the pathetic fallacy again!  The poet must be self-conscious, must
be ironic, can't fall into the sin of a pilgrim's progress and fly
toward Grace Abounding. So Bloom and Vendler find fault in A R Ammons.
Must one be tin man and have a mind of ice, of a snowman? Trees! That
Prairie awakens, and stirs the dull roots of Zoyd's soul when she sees
the trees. And he might hear them whisper, feel their
tenderness...without Van Meter's magic potions...or is that something
They can take awy from us?

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