I came to explore the wreck. The words are purposes. The words are maps. I came to see the damage that was done and the treasures that prevail. Figurative Language and Thought - Side 111af Albert N. Katz, Cristina Cacciari, Raymond W. Gibbs Jr., Mark Turner - 1998 - 208 siderBegrænset visning - Om denne bog
| Jane Roberta Cooper - 1984 - 390 sider
...in which she must learn "to turn my body without force." She has come "to explore the wreck . . . / to see the damage that was done / and the treasures that prevail." The wreck is a layered image: it is the life of one woman, the source of successes and failures; it... | |
| Cynthia L. Caywood, Gillian R. Overing - 1987 - 260 sider
...underwater explorer, we dive below the surface reality to discover what lies beneath. Like her, we can say: The words are purposes. The words are maps. I came...damage that was done And the treasures that prevail. "Diving Into the Wreck," (23). Notes 1. For the use of journals and writing across the curriculum in... | |
| James McCorkle - 1989 - 282 sider
...(WTC 28) — form the core poetics of Diving into the Wreck. Indeed, in the title poem, Rich writes: I came to explore the wreck. The words are purposes....damage that was done and the treasures that prevail. (DW 23) Susan Van Dyne argues that these poems reveal a split between the poet who "almost obsessively... | |
| Marleen S. Barr, Richard Feldstein - 1989 - 268 sider
...alone." She comes to "explore the wreck," but recognizes the danger lurking in symbolic inscriptions: "The words are purposes. / The words are maps. / I came to see the damage that was done." The words seem somehow complicit with the damage. Wrenching herself from the symbolic into the imaginary,... | |
| Elizabeth Dreyer - 1990 - 260 sider
...women today as the recovery of their own stones. The wreck is a ship sunken long ago in the ocean. I came to explore the wreck. The words are purposes....the treasures that prevail. I stroke the beam of my tamp slowly along the flank of something more permanent than fish or weed the thing I came for the... | |
| Anne Clark Bartlett - 1995 - 236 sider
...literature. I. Title. PR275 R4B37 1995 823'.309382—dc20 94-39910 To my parents, Joan and Jack Bartlett I came to explore the wreck. The words are purposes....damage that was done and the treasures that prevail. Adrienne Rich, "Diving into the Wreck" Contents ¿Mft **• Ä* Preface ix I Reading Medieval Women... | |
| Andrew Elkins - 1991 - 302 sider
...in order to reach out of himself. Or it is like Adrienne Rich's "diving into the wreck" of herself: I stroke the beam of my lamp slowly along the flank of something more permanent than fish or weed the thing I came for: the wreck and not the story of the wreck the thing itself and... | |
| Marianne DeKoven - 1991 - 268 sider
...what [she] came for," but in the sixth stanza, exactly midway through the poem, she reminds herself: "I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. / The words are maps." The referent of "the words" is ambiguous. "The words" might be "I came to explore the wreck," and/or... | |
| Alberta Turner - 1992 - 228 sider
...here swaying their crenellated fans between the reefs and besides you breathe differently down here. I came to explore the wreck. The words are purposes....slowly along the flank of something more permanent than fish or weed the thing I came for: the wreck and not the story of the wreck the thing itself and... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 sider
...put on the body-armor of black rubber the absurd flippers the grave and awkward mask. (1. 5—7) 4 n every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by...blessings thy free bounty gives Let me not cast away; (1. 51—54) 5 the thing I came for: the wreck and not the story of the wreck the thing itself and... | |
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