Clarity

1. Clarity Adaptation of “Route” by George Oppen ZowieAgbaosi

2. Clarity Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity Clarity Clarity Clarity

3. But to I have not and never did have any motive of poetry Achieve clarity

4. We suffer a certain fear There is a force of clarity, it is Of what is not autonomous in us,

5. Things alter, Surrounded by depth And width

6. Not to reduce the thing to nothing--

7. cannot be Words wholly transparent

8. As for a long time we have abandoned those in Extremity and we find it unbearable that we should do so . . .

9. You must try to put yourself in those times.

10. There always is There was an escape from that dilemma, as, in a way,

11. --these things are composed of moral substance only if they are untrue. If these things are true they are perfectly simple, perfectly impenetrable, those primary elements which can only be Named.

12. …One man could not understand me because I was saying Simple things; it seemed to him that nothing was being said.

13. has commonly He says what been said

14. He wishes to join again Out of Context An unreasonable speech

15. poetry I don’t mean he despairs, I mean if he does not He sees in the manner of

16. The context is history Moving toward the light of the concious

17. The context is Long ago, the autonomous figures are gone The thousands of days

18. A definition--? Slide 17 To insist that what is true is good,no matter matter no matter

19. Oddly, Oddly insistent

20. the dream merely ends, These things at the limit of reason nothing at the limits of dream, by this we know it is the real

21. What is or is true