
Peter Balakian Reads Theodore Roethke
The New Yorker: Poetry
The Eye Begins to See, There's Something Other
This is a poem in which the poet is not afraid of taking rists with big language. I think retke was a spiritual poet, but he wasn't orthodoxly religious. So it has that or what's madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance. There many days when walk around saying those lines. A they have, another way to think of it for our readers might be that they visually look like they write more than they do,. sometimes, yes, yes.
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