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‘This * appreciation of one aspect of the writing of poetry does lead us closer to to a sympathy with poetry itself. Once it has been established that a peom is not simply a rather clever way of stating a meaning, but a form of words which, like a dream, can move along in terms of mental associations rather than logic, we can recognise the way in which poetry makes use of this technique to disturb us; having some part of its origin in the subconscious mind of the poet, it makes an appeal to the subconscious as well as the conscious mind of the reader, for its language reminds him of the characteristics of his own subconscious world.

‘One of the characteristics of the subconscious, and one which we all notice in dreams, is its habit of fusing one thing with another, of making a whole out of conflicting parts.’**

*[See last four previous entries, [Redbook7:145][19900613:0840h]{Poetry (Extracts) [continued (8)]}[13th June 1990]ff]

**Ibid, 17-18

[As do (or try to do) this Journal, & the writer’s longer fictions. See next entry]

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