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"But may Leda, in suffering a more complete violation than that suffered by this speaker"

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When the walls are broken, the veils rent, light may flood the soul.

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The visionary speaker, at least, feels the power that courses through history without being able to understand it.

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"That divine-human polar reality at the heart of all power and knowledge, at the unknowable center of the cycles of history, is glimpsed from yet different points of view in other poems."

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"a physical yet more-than-physical spasm that is the source of all life and death. Physical "beating"—of wings or heart or loins—renders"

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"a physical yet more-than-physical spasm that is the source of all life and death. Physical "beating"—of wings or heart or loins—renders"
-Makai

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We are left here, however, with the feel of that "strange heart beating" and that still more uncannily autonomous "shudder"—a physical yet more-than-physical spasm that is the source of all life and death.

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" The speaker's question therefore points beyond himself toward more completely visionary harlots, fools, and saints." - Amelia

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"The visionary speaker, at least, feels the power that courses through history without being able to understand it."
-ella

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A sudden blow: the great wings beating still . . ." After subjecting us to that incursion of a starkly physical power, the octave prolongs the hovering moment of anticipation and moves from direct perception into questions that heighten our awareness of the swan's nature.
- mitchell

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"Postcoital indifference merges with the indifference of that destructively creative power toward the vessels of its impulse,"

-Sean

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When the walls are broken, the veils rent, light may flood the soul.

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When the walls are broken, the veils rent, light may flood the soul.

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Ava

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"hovering moment of anticipation and moves from direct perception into questions"

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"hovering moment of anticipation and moves from direct perception into questions"

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-spencer

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Another violent movement carries us into the wider perspective of history

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Another violent movement carries us into the wider perspective of history

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"Under Leda's productive hemispheres lay in embryo the whole Trojan world..." - Autumn

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The alien ecstasy of creation produces—and is, proleptically—man's shudder at the violence of destruction. 

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The alien ecstasy of creation produces—and is, proleptically—man's shudder at the violence of destruction. 