The Blue Rim of Memory | Mystical Orientation
In this essay, the author considers the mystical orientation that Levertov brings to the discipline of poetry.
In “The Blue Rim of Memory,” Denise Levertov wastes no time in building subtly to her point and little or no interpretation is required in even the first reading of the poem. By the third word of the first line, the reader knows exactly what this poem is about: sorrow.
The poem proceeds in a manner where it zeros in on the sensation of sorrow, while simultaneously distances from any accompanying emotion. Because of this duality, the poem never quite yields its detachment to the point of sympathy or detaches to the point of total abstraction.
Levertov brings the...
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