pg 115. “When we listen to a person speaking, we hear a particular music unlike any other. The stamp of someone’s voice is as individual as a fingerprint; if we know someone well, we instantly recognize the tone, pitch, resonance of that voice whenever we encounter it.”
pg 116. “When we fail to produce this voice, the poem fails. The reader laughs when we want her to cry, or turns away disinterestedly when we passionately was his attention. The poem doesn’t communicate what we meant; the voice is garbled, confused, talking to itself”
pg118 “Doing a close analysis of any writer is a useful exercise that can teach you a lot about why you may like or dislike the poems-why they appeal to you, why they move you or make you cringe. Of course, there’s a mysterious element in poetry that seems to resist intellectual analysis, and this is good.”
pg118 “..,there’s an organic and irreducible energy in a good poem that can’t be logically accounted for. Call it the spark, the ‘blood-jet,’ as Sylvia Plath did, or whatever you will; you can take the poem apart and you won’t find it.”
pg 121 “Usually, image and statement combine in a poem (through there are memorable exceptions). Notice what balance is, and see if you need to strengthen one or the other.”
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