English - Poet | June 20, 1951 -
It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed.
Paul Muldoon
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Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day political level.
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Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read.
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On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place.
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That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.
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The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with.
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The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.
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We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.
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What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up.
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Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect.
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Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time.
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At high school, instead of the weekly essay, I would write a poem, and the teacher accepted that. The impulse was one of laziness, I'm certain. Poems were shorter than essays.
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