The Ridge Farm Quotes Flashcards
(12 cards)
What nature says?
‘this is why nature says nothing -/ it has nothing to say’
lack of end stopping at end of the stanza line
The focus of section 50?
‘a light catches somewhere, finds human / spirit to burn on’
Reality is shaped by the way in which human perceives it
‘it dwells: it dwells and dwells’
Cryptic syntax of section 9?
‘if you don’t / eat the imaginary potato’
‘your real capacity / to imagine allusion lessens’
constant relationship between what we consume and our sensory perception of illusion
Effect of technology on nature?
‘cars / are our worst predators’
His response to form?
‘one breaks / form open because he fears / its bearing in one him’
His fragmentation?
‘because it is / all one it must be divided / and because it is / divided it must be all one’
‘fragmentation’
Who owns the ridge?
‘not my, I don’t own an inch of it: / and not theirs, either, the ones who / do own it’
my is italicised for emphasis
Fragility of man compared to nature?
the ridge is ‘approximately’ the same as it was ‘five hundred years ago’
‘man seem papery and / wrong when wind or time tears / through them’
What is rubbish?
‘trash is what / you make of it’
Why he likes nature?
‘I go to / nature because man is scary’
Poetry is a tool?
‘next morning pack my bag with free verse’
tangibility
His favourite type of poetry?
‘I like nature poetry / where the brooks are never damned up’
This is the beginning of the final section
