Poetics 1

Olson's poetics convey a new order of importance to me. The syllable is key to the ear and therefore the mind. We hear in syllables. It is by syllables the mind will move. That movement of the mind must be constant in order to pass the energy of the poem to the reader.
The lines are breaths. Are not to be focused on, these are made as the poem is written. By paying attention to one's breath as he writes.
The field is the poem on paper. This represents the relationships between objects. But one must in composing leave each object, as represented in the whole of the joining of the syllable and line, solid and unchanged.
Though projective verse is "free form" poetry, it cannot be concieved as being formless. Rather, the form is natural, it is made of language, of words, of syllables, of sound. Language has form, it has instictive universal form.

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