The K (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Charles Olson
- First Published: 1948
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Culture, Self-discovery, Nature, Self, Human race, Reality, Moon or moons, Gravitation
The Poem
“The K” is a lyric poem of twenty-six lines written in free verse. It interprets the letter K as a physical symbol of the fully realized human being who, in harmony with the moon’s gravitational force, moves beyond conventional limitations conditioned by Western civilization and bridges the gap between the subjective and the objective and between the self and the natural realm of total reality.
The escape from the partitioning of reality characteristic of the modern Western mind to the attainment of a wholeness of being marked the principal aim of...
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