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A bog of subjectivity

from Rosemond Tuve’s A Reading of George Herbert (1952):

I shall not venture farther in the rest of this essay into the question of what-the-poem-‘really’-means; there is a bog of subjectivity just to one side in the darkness, and I would rather leave the skirting of it to others.

October 15, 2018in notebookTags criticism, interpretation, literature, meaning, poetry

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