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O'Hara, significantly, does not describe Tallchief 's appearance. She appears only as a body in motion, ‘limbs’ that ‘breath[e]’, ‘tear’, and ‘cast’. She is awhirl, like a ‘cyclone’. For the poet, the art of dance seems to boil down to grandly significant corporeal gestures.
It argues that that the step is integral to his thinking, that in thinking he steps, that in stepping he thinks; that the term, in its recurrence in the poetry, works as metaphor but also as the trace of gesture, and that in the combination of metaphor and gesture is the order of O'Hara's thought.
Apr 19, 2007 · Frank O’Hara “A Step Away From Them”, 257-8 · the spatiality is the key to one aspect of his poetry and the articulating gap between the I and the you but also the problematic gap between being and living which the myth of the action poem attempts to eradicate.
Jun 23, 2022 · O’Hara’s poem questions why the most important things we do – breathing, loving – should be hidden from view. Whilst O’Hara’s trees have a sense of flow and movement, they are also firmly grounded in one place: the trees in his work suggest a sense of self composed of relationships with other people and the world.
What is painterly about Frank O’Hara’s poems? Is Walt Whitman’s influence on O’Hara greater in techniques or themes?
Our minds ramble on; why not our poems? Ramblings are not, to say the least, the native form of poets with metaphysical minds, but O'Hara, in his fundamental prescinding from the metaphysical,...
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