Endymion Awake Joseph Hart 9781481098496 Books
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This is a disparate collection of mild, rather vague poems written under the spell of Keats, though not under his tutelage, except the injunction disinterestedness. Someone said that art has decayed to the point that Truth is merely what is interesting, and Beauty what is pleasant. These poems were meant to be pleasant. Proust said that when he read a novel, he was keenly aware of the Truths strewn throughout the prose. There are no Truths in these poems. The poems have rhythm or meter, and many rhyme.
Endymion Awake Joseph Hart 9781481098496 Books
Endymion Awake by Joseph HartThis is a collection of poems written in 1984/1985 when, by his own admission, Joseph Hart was "under the spell" of Keats. And it shows.
Keats' poetry is mainly characterized by wonderful sensual imagery and mainly in the form of his odes.
Hart's poetry is brimming with sensual imagery, most notably visual and tactile imagery, as seen in "Lines on the Ocean" :
"My senses are my sentiments.
The air is salty, and the sea
Is grey and undulating free."
And from "Sensation" :
"The sky is like the surface of the sea,
All littered with the beds of little clouds.
And the ocean, like a warm and living hand,
Writes its perfect poetry upon the shore."
There are a number of poems containing castle imagery. Truly, this series of castle poems could be considered to be Hart's own "odes" to a castle. The descriptions of these magnificent structures is some of the best I've seen. For example, in "The Castle", he writes:
"I want to touch a castle
All angular and square
And grey and rugged, hard and rough
With inner darkness dim,
To hear some Gothic singers chant
An old medieval hymn
And sense a whispered silence
In the dismal interim...
To sense inside this castle made
Of rock inhuman, me,
A thing of warmth and consciousness
That I've identified
Inside this cold and cultured rock
Where god could not abide..."
And he describes yet another castle in "A Rock Castle":
"The castle stands encrusted
In the open hand of rock
As if it were enfolded
In the petals of a flower."
The juxtaposition of soft and hard imagery is so powerful.
But the predominant image in this collection of poems focuses around the sea. There is also a nice blend of ocean and sleep imagery in several poems. "The ocean makes a lullaby with its own muffled roar" ("The Ocean and Sleep"). As I read these poems, I could hear the ocean's rhythmic crashing....calming and soothing.
In the reflective piece, "Void", the poet admits to thinking about destroying all of his work. Luckily for poetry lovers, he did not. Keats is credited as saying "if poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all". Certainly, it comes to Joseph Hart, and quite naturally.
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Endymion Awake Joseph Hart 9781481098496 Books Reviews
Endymion Awake by Joseph Hart
This is a collection of poems written in 1984/1985 when, by his own admission, Joseph Hart was "under the spell" of Keats. And it shows.
Keats' poetry is mainly characterized by wonderful sensual imagery and mainly in the form of his odes.
Hart's poetry is brimming with sensual imagery, most notably visual and tactile imagery, as seen in "Lines on the Ocean"
"My senses are my sentiments.
The air is salty, and the sea
Is grey and undulating free."
And from "Sensation"
"The sky is like the surface of the sea,
All littered with the beds of little clouds.
And the ocean, like a warm and living hand,
Writes its perfect poetry upon the shore."
There are a number of poems containing castle imagery. Truly, this series of castle poems could be considered to be Hart's own "odes" to a castle. The descriptions of these magnificent structures is some of the best I've seen. For example, in "The Castle", he writes
"I want to touch a castle
All angular and square
And grey and rugged, hard and rough
With inner darkness dim,
To hear some Gothic singers chant
An old medieval hymn
And sense a whispered silence
In the dismal interim...
To sense inside this castle made
Of rock inhuman, me,
A thing of warmth and consciousness
That I've identified
Inside this cold and cultured rock
Where god could not abide..."
And he describes yet another castle in "A Rock Castle"
"The castle stands encrusted
In the open hand of rock
As if it were enfolded
In the petals of a flower."
The juxtaposition of soft and hard imagery is so powerful.
But the predominant image in this collection of poems focuses around the sea. There is also a nice blend of ocean and sleep imagery in several poems. "The ocean makes a lullaby with its own muffled roar" ("The Ocean and Sleep"). As I read these poems, I could hear the ocean's rhythmic crashing....calming and soothing.
In the reflective piece, "Void", the poet admits to thinking about destroying all of his work. Luckily for poetry lovers, he did not. Keats is credited as saying "if poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all". Certainly, it comes to Joseph Hart, and quite naturally.
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