DDCPoetry

Original poem reprinted online here: "Driving Toward the Lac Qui Parle River" by Robert Bly Originally read: June 2, 2013 More information about the Poet: Robert Bly Lac Qui Parle River What is actual is actual.  The poem is split into three sestets which chronicles the journey of the speaker through Minnesota.  If I get my geography correct, the speaker is going from Willmar to Milan to Lac Qui Parle River.  So the three stanzas sort of represent each individual journey; however, the speaker introduces little snippets of techniques that expands the poem from a simple journey. I. The usage of semi-colons in the first line, "I am driving; it is dusk; Minnesota" sets up an offsetting list, or rather, the situation is deliberate enough where the reader has to focus on these three aspects.  There is a speaker who is driving.  The time frame is dusk.  The context of the poem is within Minnesota. Yet, look at what the speaker notes on this drive, "The stubble fie...

Original poem reprinted online here: "Farm Scenes" by Robert Bly Originally read: January 28, 2013 More information about the Poet:  Robert Bly  I never wrote about sequence poems versus stanza break poems.  I believe that sequence poems take the white space as semi-colons.  That each piece, no matter how separate the content may be, are connected to each other somehow or someway; meanwhile, stanza break poems could shift topics and correlate to the stanza before or branch off into something entirely different.  Of course, I may be wrong with my assumptions. So for Bly, I remember most of the work had a Jungian influence ( Deep Imagism ), so the most important parts to look out for is the usage of light and darkness (or how one turns to the shadow [or the Orpheus complex]).  Anyway, away from the jarganism. In the first stanza, there's a specific visual scenery of "Everything is white."  That all the connotations of the color is there, but it's butted...