Cam (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} sculpin) wrote,@ 2003-12-23 13:57:00 |
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Auden divided by N
I'm reading James Fenton's Oxford lectures on poetry, where I read the opening passage of Auden's "At The Grave Of Henry James". It seemed amenable to the chopping game. Here's every other line, with some punctuational cheating. (I was tempted to change "accomodate" and "echo" to "accomodates" and "echoes" but that seemed like too much cheating.)
I'm reading James Fenton's Oxford lectures on poetry, where I read the opening passage of Auden's "At The Grave Of Henry James". It seemed amenable to the chopping game. Here's every other line, with some punctuational cheating. (I was tempted to change "accomodate" and "echo" to "accomodates" and "echoes" but that seemed like too much cheating.)
At Grave Henry
The snow, less intransigent than their marble,
accomodate blue now, echo such clouds as occur,
while rocks, named after singular spaces,
stand here in an innocent stillness, each marking the spot.
To whose real advantage were such transactions?
Be just to the absent? O noon but reflects on itself,
has no more judgment than my ignorant shadow
with the heart's instantaneous reading of time, time that is
startling the awkward footsteps of my apprehension.
