Sketch for an Aesthetic Project (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Jay Wright
- First Published: 1971
- Type of Work: Narrative
- Genres: Poetry, Narrative poetry
- Subjects: History, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Love or romance, Slavery or slaves, New York City, Inner cities or inner-city life, City life, Creative process, Sea or seafaring life, Southwest, Deserts, Aesthetics, Walking
The Poem
“Sketch for an Aesthetic Project” is a long narrative poem in four sections totaling ninety lines. Jay Wright employs the first-person voice to lend immediacy to the spontaneity of experience and thought. Three lines from Thomas Kinsella’s “Night-walker” introduce the poem: “I believe now that love is half persistence,/ A medium in which, from change to change,/ Understanding may be gathered.” Wright’s narrator achieves this understanding by equating aesthetics with the natural changes of love. The poem’s first section contains three stanzas; the...
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