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This 5 page paper is a literary analysis of the poem "The Garden" by Mark Strand. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Strand is the "rightful heir" to Wallace Stevens. For Stevens, the "ultimate poem" was abstract; it seems that Strand has gone Stevens one better: "... without Stevens exotic vocabulary or
syntactic complexity, he draws from an elemental lexicon of Platonic forms-trees, darkness, light, moon, room, breath, sleep, dreams-as if beginning in the plain sense of things of late Stevens" (Miller).
These Platonic forms are of great importance in his work "The Garden," which includes images of the moon and stars, and light filling the sky. Platos theory of forms is
complex, but if we simplify it greatly (and thereby fail to do it justice, unfortunately) it goes something like this: "Take any property of an object, separate it from that
object and consider it by itself, and you are contemplating a form" (Banach). Banach uses the example of a basketball, which has several qualities including color, weight, shape and so
on. If we separate the shape of the basketball from the ball itself and consider just the roundness, we are considering the form (Banach). Forms have two additional properties: they
are transcendental, existing outside time and space; and they are pure (Banach). Lets see if that helps us in understanding Strands poem. If Miller is generous in his praise of
Strand, a critic by the name of Carl Singleton is not. He characterized Strands poetry as "entirely characteristic of the age in which he writes," and as being nothing more
than the scribblings of a "sensitive soul searching for definition" (Singleton). His work is "formulaic" and "packaged" and fits in beautifully with other works of the second half of the
20th century (Singleton). In spite of this, Strand has a "voice, experience and expression all quite his own"; and one of the subjects that intrigues him the most is the
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