I should have put this behind a link but I don't know how.
every time i read the poem Continental Trance i am overwhelmed with questions about the form the content the style the flow the meaning the order the language the world
i understand that this was B P n I C H O L ’ s intention because
his piece is filled with
ajumbleof
innovative conventions
making the reading process
complicated and intensifying
Nichol
looks at
the Beauty of
language
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He plays
with the
st ate
of words
and how
this
cor
relates
to
reality
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thot
is the real
the essence
the truth of
word
Nicol
lays then plays
His
representation
cuz words
aren’t s3t in
$t0n3
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1:37am
I’m traveling
on
the looonngggroadroadroadroad
to complet-
where is end?
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BPn fits
cat-into the-egory
of Postmodernism
he uses multiple voices in
each
of the poems
to show the
per-spectivesssss
on
l a n g u a g e
and the uncertainty
of…
it?
first voice?
Descriptive
second voice?
Thought
Third voice?
Realization
A LARGER THAN LIFE
Philosophical
STATEMENT
Thevoicesallconnect
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NICHOL
has epistemological ?s
‘things i have knowledge of but cannot account for’
he also tries and tries and
to break and crack the structures
holding the world together
or
is it
it is
or
it’s hard to say really it’s hard to say
if the structures are there
if they do what they are said to do
but to bre ak
them
is his quest
and
logically -he feels they cannot be broken down-
but still he tries
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