Found inside – Page 88Archibald MacLeish's A poem should not mean / But be ' was for me a mantra at that time , and I felt the same should be true of a painting . ... I was responding not to a statement but to a painting ; not to a ' meaning ' but to a ' work of art . Found inside – Page 793the assumption that “ a poem should not mean but be . ... Does this mean that logical statement can never be poetic ? ... Explain . 8 . What aspect of criticism does Stauffer stress ? Why ? CRITICISM OF DRAMA D . W . Lucas A NOTE ON ... Found inside – Page 120Archibald MacLeish said , “ A poem should not mean / But be , ” and then turned around and committed the communication fallacy himself during WWII . A work of the imagination is first an experience , meaning and emotion fused in the instant ... Found inside – Page 850Judging a poem is like judging a pudding or a machine. One demands that it work. It is only because an artifact works that we infer the intention of an artificer. "A poem should not mean but be." A poem can be only through its meaning — since ... Found inside – Page 385He was reserved about my conclusions , he wrote , because for better or for worse he could not overcome his suspicion of system . ... A year later í published a paper about “ Music Analysis in an Historical Context , ” : 7 in which I attacked the position of the “ New Criticism ... wrote Wimsatt and Beardsley just before delivering the famous punchline of Archibald MacLeish , “ A poem should not mean but be . Found inside – Page 610A poem should be equal to : Not true . For all the history of grief 20 An empty doorway and a maple leaf . For love The leaning grasses and two lights above the seaA poem should not mean But be . DOROTHY PARKER ( 1893 – 1967 ) ... Found inside – Page 216In a dream the pictorial “ epidermis ” is the medium , and its psychological meaning is the message . ... Indeed , epigrams like “ Poems are made of words and not of ideas ” ( Mallarmé ) or “ A poem should not mean , but Be ” ( McLeish ) are ... Found inside – Page 158"Submissions must be limited to three poems and are considered only between September 1 and May 31. ... Although a cover letter is not mandatory, we like them. ... The editor quotes Archibald MacLeish, " 'A poem should not mean/ But be. Found inside – Page xxxviWords are the raw material of poems, and in a poem words are used to their full capacity. The literal meaning plays its neces. sary part, but the associations and suggestions that surround all but a few of our words are deliberately sought ... But the reader must be careful, after perceiving the figure or image for what it is and enjoying it for its own sake, not to interpret literally what is intended figuratively. Found inside – Page 172A poem should be equal to : Not true . For all the history of grief An empty doorway and a maple leaf . For love The leaning grasses and two lights above the sea - A poem should not mean But be . And here are lines from two sections of John ... Found inside – Page 195Substance is the generative vision, or the general import, of a poem, while form is the manner in which that generative vision is made evident and conveyed. ... For instance, there is Archibald MacLeish who said that "a poem should not mean but be. ... Following this postulate on the arts with a definition of poetry, Mr. Villa said : "Poetry is the arr 0/ the word — one may even go so far as to say, the art of the ... Found inside – Page 4345 Silent as the sleeve - worn stone Of casement ledges where the moss has grownA poem should be wordless As the flight of birds . A poem should be ... 20 For love The leaning grasses and two lights above the seaA poem should not mean But be . ( 144 words ) ... to : / Not true " ? 4. The final stanza contains MacLeish's summarized view of poetry 434 EXPLAINING : ILLUSTRATION AND DEFINITION. Found inside – Page 19Meaning and Intent The following pages are liberally sprinkled with references to Milton ' s “ meaning , ” “ intent , ” “ purpose , ” and “ message , ” which seems positively foolhardy in an age when poems “ should not mean / But be ” and during ... Found inside – Page 50Edwin Morgan wrote me a very nice letter about it . * Cordelia , or a Poem Should Not Mean But Be , was a pamphlet of Veronica ' s more recent poems published by Owens Press , Leicester . Alas , it sold badly and I did not trace any reviews . Found inside – Page 99A poem should not mean But be " : by not meaning but being , a poem does , not says . “ Preach ” , however , derives from the Latin prae before plus dicare ' to make known ' ; since , as Macquarrie demonstrates , the di - form is cognate with ... Found inside – Page 345best poetry of 1948 , I think they should have So independent an observer as Harry publicly said so — but not ... have own sake , scorning the " heresy of paraphras adduced enough specific reminders that ining ” a poem's meaning and ethical ... Found inside – Page 118Centuries later , Ben Jonson said that the word and its meaning co - exist as body and soul , the inseparable pair again . ... as it stands takes precedence and not meaning One modern poet has said that a poem should not mean , but ' be ' . Found inside – Page 13This does not mean that being a poet and undergoing therapy are the same thing — they are not . For one thing , their goals are usually different . But in both cases small events , fragments out of time , constitute significant parts of the whole . Found inside – Page 2McLeish opined that “ a poem should not mean but be , ” and Jan Clausen said that poetics of use is not possible and is a ... I think a world that does not want meaning or use is a very strange world for a human being to operate in , though ... Found inside – Page 167Quibbling , I wish to point out that such a description of Paul Engle's poems , suggesting as it does that the poems are about ... career , and in the dark night of the new criticism , for me to affirm belligerently that a poem should not mean but be . Then too it is incorrect for me to suggest , as I have done , that the poems from which I have quoted are models of how a good “ being ” poet avoids “ meaning . Found inside – Page 353Silent as the sleeve - worn stone Of casement ledges where the moss has grownA poem should be wordless As the flight of birds * * * A poem should ... a maple leaf For love The leaning grasses and two lights above the sea , A poem should not mean But be 1926 QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION 1 . ... In your own words , explain what MacLeish means by the line , “ A poem should be equal to : / Not true . Found inside – Page 148A poem should be equal to : Not true . For all the history of grief An empty doorway and a maple leaf . For love The leaning grasses and two lights above the seaA poem should not mean But be . ARCHIBALD MAC LEISH You can train your ... Found inside – Page 16... A poem should not mean But be , ' or Lawrence Ferlinghetti's words , ' A poem is a mirror walking down a strange street , ' I felt I was crossing a threshold which would lead me to a glorious self - enlightenment and to the definition of poetry . Found inside – Page 60As Archibald MacLeish has it : “ A poem should not mean but be ” . ... maintains its integrity - then we may expect the meaning - conferring act of the artist that constitutes the work as meaning - bearer to be itself dialectic in its structuring . Found inside – Page 465experience , MacLeish weaves together the outward or public movement of the poem with the inward motion which directly results from the relationship between images . Therefore , A poem should not mean But be . Images mean ; poems are ... Found inside – Page 351This does not mean that the experience needs to be explained , nor does it always mean totality of experience . A poem may give us only a segment of an experience . Poets may certainly write of facts , but they interpret these facts in the wider ... Found inside – Page 383For love The leaning grasses and two lights above the seaA poem should not mean But be . Comments and Questions Ars poetica means the art of poetry , or , in this case , MacLeish ' s definition of a poem . We can assume that he is ... Found inside – Page 103... poem because a poem means more than it says and its essential meaning would be lost in such an attempt . No doubt these readers would agree with poet Archibald MacLeish that “ a poem should not mean / But be . ” However , writing a ... Found inside – Page 33We should not hesitate to adopt as our own what Archibald MacLeish says in his very fine Ars Poetica , " A poem should not mean but be , since poetry " means " in that it " is . " Any search for form , no matter how negative or misguided it may ... Found inside – Page 868ARS POETICA A poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit , Dumb As old medallions to the thumb , 5 Silent as the sleeve - worn stone Of ... 20 For love The leaning grasses and two lights above the seaA poem should not mean But be . [ 1926 ] YOU , ANDREW MARVELL And here face down beneath the sun And here upon earth's noonward height 1 Latin meaning “ The Art of Poetry . ” 2 The ... Found inside – Page 123to connect the philosophy as such with the poems, and the value of this chapter is, to say the least, questionable. ... into such familiar shapes as 'A poem should not mean / But be' and 'The dominant medium of modern poetry is the 1mage. Found inside – Page 496A poem should be equal to : Not true . For all the history of grief An empty doorway and a maple leaf . For love The leaning grasses and two lights above the sea - A poem should not mean But be . Here are two poems whose meaning could ... Found inside – Page 83Cf . frequent misreadings of Archibald MacLeish ' s lines , “ A poem should not mean / But be . ... Perrine , however , maintains that a poem not only survives analysis , but , if it is a good poem , actually becomes stronger after the process has ... Found inside – Page 39Style As Meaning which is a symbol . “ A poem should not mean But be , ” writes Mr . Archibald MacLeish . But a poem cannot be in the simple sense that a statue or a piece of Venetian glass is . For each thing insofar as it is , must be , have ... Found inside – Page 55... and two lights above the sea A poem should not mean But be s This poem is one of my favorites because I experience the ... This poem truly requires the willing suspension of disbelief in the reader because in reality " being ” and “ meaning ... Found inside – Page 7Vice Presi- poem should not mean , but be ! ... they are not always able ucation , will focus attention on ry , Anderson College . to say precisely what they mean Announcing Revised Edition by being as opposed to meaning . the principles and ... Found inside – Page 21But equally it stems from a thrilling ngage i opportunity to share in the creation of a new epoch by and for mankind ... It may be true that a good citizen - like a good poem — " should not mean but be ” ; yet meaning can lead to being in the ... Found inside – Page 43Rather , much as we study myths to gain a mythic sense and not to match ourselves with mythical typologies – I am living the Oedipal myth , you are an Artemis woman or an ... The poetic would defeat paranoia , a meaning disorder , because “ A poem should be equal to / Not true . . . . A poem should not mean / But be . Found inside – Page 6A poem should not mean But be. By bringing a poem into being, the poet enacts a manifestation of that which is created: the primordial experience of the ... Found inside – Page 84In the words of Archibald Macheisb : A poem should not mean But be . 2 The shift in emphasis in literary criticism - from the analysis . of a poem within " a frame of reference " to the analysis of the words on the page - only was brought about by ... Found inside – Page 2240"A poem," as Archibald MacLeish has it, "should not mean / But be." A poem's mode of being is defined, in part, not through its communication of meaning but, rather, through its artful resistance to paraphrased meaning. The poet will almost ... Found inside – Page 55Indeed , they try more to communicate an experience than to prove the meaning and power of that experience . This is ... We can make further distinctions here if we examine MacLeish ' s closing statement : A poem should not mean But be . Found inside – Page 781Moreover , although we should not apply adult standards to children ' s programs , it is reasonable to ask that radio producers ... Herbert Muller ' s analysis of “ Impressionism in Fiction " ( American Scholar , summer , 1938 ) portrays such writers as Joseph ... Archibald MacLeish insisted , “ A poem should not mean but be . Found inside – Page 136however , I can with some confidence speculate about its meaning . The theory of the " objective correlative " can best be understood in relationship to MacLeish ' s prescription that a poem should not mean but be . Notice the last part of Eliot ... Found inside – Page 91Rockwell means illustration , Picasso means art . 19. He never says what he means . 20. The next three hours mean work . 21. He means what he says . 22. I defy you to explain the meaning of this poem . 23. A poem should not mean / But be . Found inside – Page 741... which praises poems “dumb" and “silent,” and advocates the idea that “A poem should not mean / But be.” Between poetry and life no commerce is expected, a rule recently amplified by a famous scholar-critic who declares that “the meaning ... Found inside – Page 200A poem should not mean / But be . 8 . Reading it ( poetryl , however , with a perfect contempt for it , one / discovers in / it after all , a place for the genuine . 9 . these things are important not because a / high - sounding interpretation can be put ... Found inside – Page 6As MacLeish ' s famous dictum — “ A poem should not mean / But be ” - indicates , we may yet have to relearn how to read by regaining our innocence . It is controls such as these that will enable us to come into meaningful interaction with the ... Found inside – Page 22Archibald MacLeish says A poem should not mean, But be. ... 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