Autumn Journal

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As there is no such thing as “pure repetition,” in Autumn Journal the recurring and is an amorphous figure. When “war seemed round the corner again,” when Woolf felt too “black” to “gather together,” she recognized the intense necessity to oppose the dispersal of things and souls.

And carries with it the idea of fronting and facing a boundary, edge, or extreme case; it “separates and joins at the same time.

Stallworthy suggests that this poetics contains “the impurities of the world, the flux of experience, in a documentary form that, for all its seeming spontaneity, would be directed into patterns on a page—as images fixed on film—by the invisible imagination.

He is a train traveler, taxi rider and driver, tripper, jazz lover, newspaper reader, a consumer of goods, party goer, lonely man, reader of books, smoker and drinker, student and teacher, lover and ex–lover, countryman and townee, husband and ex–husband, classicist and modern man, citizen, Irishman, Londoner. Binding the self in the defining time of the Spanish conflict, canto XXIII moves by a broken pattern and anxious incompatible shifts which bear powerfully on the processes of self–collecting.If I had been writing a didactic poem proper, it would have been my job to qualify or eliminate these over-statements and inconsistencies. I'm always more drawn to poetry in autumn than any other time of year and I grabbed this from work because of the beautiful autumn-coloured cover and because I needed a break from the Arthurian poetry I've been reading in the background. His body of work was widely appreciated by the public during his lifetime, due in part to his relaxed, but socially and emotionally aware style. In Autumn Journal, the speaker knows that “the dice are loaded / Against the living man” (IX); he anticipates a “harder life” (I) to come, and yet he sees life as always promising complexity and mystery.