希尼三十年文选

• 西条エリサ

  2023-05-12
  It seems to me that Yeats cut a sly swath with that answer, enlisting the esoteric fringe to serve the nationalistic heartland, hiding the cultural agitator behind the po-faced dreamer, making a cast across the sleeping pool of historical enmity with a line as neutral as theosophy itself, the calm surface of his speech depth-charged with potential rebellion.
• 西条エリサ

  2023-05-12
  but he had about him already a definite atmosphere, a style that declared allegiance to disciplines and sources of strength not shared by his contemporaries.
• 西条エリサ

  2023-05-12
  And to go from the sublime to the ridiculous, there is the seaside-postcard Larkin, as true to the streak of vulgarity in the civilization as he is sensitive to its most delicious refinements.
• 西条エリサ

  2023-05-12
  …a certain intensity gathered through the steadier, more lexically concentrated gaze at individual words.
• 西条エリサ

  2023-05-12
  The whole unfinished business of the England-Ireland entanglement presented itself at a local level as a conflict of loyalties and impulses, and as a result the search was on for images and analogies that could ease the strain of the present. The poets were needy for ways in which they could honestly express the realities of the local quarrel without turning that expression into yet another repetition of the aggressions and resentments which had been responsible for the quarrel in the first place.
• 西条エリサ

  2023-05-12
  The newness may be a disruption or countering of settled conventions, but it will not be a challenge to the deep structure.
• 西条エリサ

  2023-05-12
  Eliot forfeited his expressionist intensity when he renounced the lyric for philosophical song. It may even be truer to say that the lyric renounced Eliot. But in accepting the consequences of renunciation with such self-knowledge and in proceeding with such strictness of intent, he proved a truth that we want to believe not perhaps about all poets but about those who are the necessary ones. He showed how poetic vocation entails the disciplining of a habit of expression until it becomes fundamental to the whole conduct of a life.
• 西条エリサ

  2023-05-12
  Poetry that was originally beyond you, generating the need to understand and overcome its strangeness, becomes in the end a familiar path within you, a grain along which your imagination opens pleasurably backwards towards an origin and a seclusion. Your last state is therefore a thousand times better than your first, for the experience of poetry is one which truly deepens and fortifies itself with reenactment.
• 西条エリサ

  2023-05-12
  Its very plenitude was meant to render its beauty questionable. It signaled a distraction from the way of purgation