In "The End of the Poem," Paul Muldoon dazzlingly explores a
diverse group of poems, from Yeats's "All Souls' Night" to Stevie
Smith's "I Remember" to Fernando Pessoa's "Autopsychography."
Muldoon reminds us that the word "poem" comes, via French, from the
Latin and Greek: "a thing made or created." He asks: Can a poem
ever be a free-standing structure, or must it always interface with
the whole of its author's bibliography--and biography? Muldoon
explores the boundlessness created by influence, what Robert Frost
meant when he insisted that "the way to read a poem in prose or
verse is in the light of all the other poems ever written."
Finally, Muldoon returns to the most fruitful, and fraught, aspect
of the phrase "the end of the poem": the interpretation that
centers on the "aim" or "function" of a poem, and the question of
whether or not the end of the poem is the beginning of criticism.
Irreverent and deeply learned, "The End of the Poem "is a vigorous
approach to looking at poetry anew.
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