Notes on the Art of Poetry
Notes on the Art of Poetry - meaning Summary
Language as Living Light
The poem celebrates the surprising, overwhelming vitality of language encountered in books. Thomas describes words as turbulent and luminous forces — "sandstorms and ice blasts" and "blinding bright lights" — that scatter across pages and animate themselves. The tone mixes astonishment and joy, presenting poetry as a world of perpetual life, delight, and oddity where individual words possess lasting presence and power.
Read Complete AnalysesI could never have dreamt that there were such goings-on in the world between the covers of books, such sandstorms and ice blasts of words,,, such staggering peace, such enormous laughter, such and so many blinding bright lights,, , splashing all over the pages in a million bits and pieces all of which were words, words, words, and each of which were alive forever in its own delight and glory and oddity and light.
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