O Taste and See (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Denise Levertov
- First Published: 1964
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
The Poem
“O Taste and See,” the title poem from Denise Levertov’s sixth collection of poems, urges readers to experience life fully and sacramentally. Reading the poem one can imagine Levertov riding a subway train in New York, where she lived at the time of the writing, looking up at the advertising signs, and reading or imagining the words “O Taste and See,” then, as she often did, making a connection between her experience and the possibilities of that phrase in order to form a constellation of perceptions (to use her term) intense enough to suggest the opening...
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