Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 5 AIL 0406 short lesson, about 20 seconds
What the Form Makes Possible
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The idea
Because no one contradicts the speaker, the poem must let him contradict himself. The reader assembles a truth the speaker did not intend to give. That gap between what the voice reports and what the poem shows is the engine of the form.
In practice
The speaker gives away more than he means.
Where people slip
The gap is the poem's engine.
Your place on the trail
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