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New for 2023: Victorian Poetry Scroll back for previous courses on Shakespeare, Eighteenth Century Poetry, Close Reading, Various film genres, Film and Philosophy, the Western Canon, Early Romantics, 17th Century Poetry, etc.
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Wednesday Feb 08, 2012
Wednesday Feb 08, 2012
Poetry's fictional addressee is the personification of Love. When Love leaves, Love is abandoned. A character only in literary space: a character who can only be fictional, which is what makes the personification so sad. That's what's going on in Bishop, Shelley's "When the Lamp is Shattered" and Yeats's "When you are old." NB: I think that I come close to being able to say what I mean here.
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