Swenson's The Universe.(May Swenson)(Critical essay)

The Explicator | March 22, 2006| | Copyright

Although it may at first appear formless, even chaotic as it crawls down the page, "The Universe" is an experiment in form. If we skim it quickly from top to bottom, we see four embedded columns: a "what" column, an "about" column," a "the universe" column, which is also a "because" or "be cause" column, and a "we think" column. Unlike most free-verse poems, in which line beginnings create a straight-line vertical left margin, "The Universe" has no meaningful left margin. It does, however, have something resembling a straight-line vertical right margin. If we hold the poem ...

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