Monday, July 28, 2008

To Wittgenstein Comments

Rating: 5.0

To Wittgenstein, Oxford,1957

Words stir and patterns coil at your hard saying;
thought, piercing the shapeless clay of memory's dug sites,
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Rob Dyer
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Graham Thompson 26 January 2019

Poetry that needs work and concentration to reveal its inner gifts. Crafted by a master of rhythm and sound, this poetry reaches philosophical depths that most poets avoid in their terror of referential failure. I hope the man that writes this poetry for all times is still himself alive. I only have one criticism of this poem: Wittgenstein was a philosopher and not a poet - his Platonic silence is the place where poetry can begin.

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