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Opened a book finally, Stevens again, Comedian and Notes. Both fantastic, but the latter! Not very hard, nor have his other poems been hard - clear Stevens paths a couple times and they stay cleared, looks like. Though I haven't yet gotten to Ordinary.
Notes is even more invisible obsessed than Auroras, and Romantic obsessed, curiously overtly, lots of deliberate alluding, though there's no mention of the poem closest to it, Shelley's Hymn. Lots of prefiguring of Crowley, too, though it's possible he didn't read it, just its own prefigurations scattered about in the Harmonium hits. I liked this bit best this time:
The eye of a vagabond in metaphor
That catches our own.
Describes itself, for me. I wonder how often I can reread this poem, because I should often.
Notes is even more invisible obsessed than Auroras, and Romantic obsessed, curiously overtly, lots of deliberate alluding, though there's no mention of the poem closest to it, Shelley's Hymn. Lots of prefiguring of Crowley, too, though it's possible he didn't read it, just its own prefigurations scattered about in the Harmonium hits. I liked this bit best this time:
The eye of a vagabond in metaphor
That catches our own.
Describes itself, for me. I wonder how often I can reread this poem, because I should often.