![]() ![]() How did that tune get there? Well from church-going, if we’re talking about prayer, or from reading other poems, if we’re talking about poetry, or perhaps just from living, in either case. ![]() If prayer is “a kind of tune,” then so too is poetry: an improvisation on or an ad hoc approximation of a structure we have in our heads. I think there’s a beautiful kind of tension-and you’ll hear it in the episode-between, on the one hand, that desire for a kind of poetry that could be understood completely and all at once, and, on the other, the method Herbert employs here, which is after all a sequential list of beautiful (and often beautifully vague) appositive phrases. It’s a poem in which all parts exist at the same time, even though when reading it, of course, you read it in a certain order.” As Stephen says, “This is not so much a poem that has a beginning, and a middle, and an end. One of the things Stephen and I talk about in the episode is the kind of speech act that prayer is, and how that might be like what happens when you read a poem out loud. ![]()
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