The Sublime and Poetic Language
Poetic
language tends to push language in one direction or another, towards
order, number, logic, or towards disorder, dream, and nightmare or frenzy |
| At
the two extremes, language fails: |
Put too much in, and the result is an inarticulate venting, a cry or scream |
Leave too much out, and the result is silence |
Yet
poetic language is most interesting — most intense, most affecting
— as it approaches these two extremes |
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