
Touch, Love, Then Explain: A discussion of “Some Trees” by John Ashbery
Poem Talk
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I Get the Hell Out of Harvard
The poem was published in the Harvard Advocate, which had been a pretty straight group. The last line strikes me as a meta poetic reference to these very accents I'm writing on this page. Our days put on such reticence, these accents seem their own defense. This becomes a defense of poetry itself that this lines will speak in reticence. And ending up making poetry more beautiful than nature.
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