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Original poem reprinted online here:   "The Pattern" by Robert Creeley Originally read: September 3, 2013 More information about the Poet:   Robert Creeley A shift in language changes language.  Simple enough, right?  I come away from this poem with more questions than actual analysis.  This poem plays with the idea behind the meaning behind the change on a linguistic level.  "As soon as / I speak, I / speaks" Even thought the only things that shifts is the singular to plural, does the essential meaning shift? Then with the next sentence, the focus is on "it" -- the ambiguous pronoun where      wants to      be free but      impassive lies      in the direction      of its      words. and here, I believe that the "it" refers to the actual term "it."  It is free of gender, age, want, desire and is a generic noun to reference anything.  However, the speaker tur...

Original poem reprinted online here: "For Love" By Robert Creeley Originally read: April 28, 2013 More information about the Poet:  Robert Creeley This poem.  This poem in particular is very tough to analyze for me.  There's a lot of techniques like: ambiguous pronouns, syntax, misdirection, rhetorical reasonings and questions, time shifts, tone shifts, precise images, high conceptual language, etc. that it's hard for me to pin down because I want to write about everything.  But I need to get this done for my own sanity and moving forward.  . So the poem is one of the first well known poems of Robert Creeley which has a lot of influence in minimalism, which, in theory, doesn't give superfluous details and goes to the core right away.  So when I read these quatrains and saw the restrictions, I thought to myself how controlled and precise the poem should be. This is the wrong way to look at the poem after reading this several times.  The quatrains doesn'...