Art Glass Serving
Posted in ArtGlass on 04/01/2011 02:26 am by adminArt Glass Serving
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help mo to explicate this poem?
Part for the Whole
by Robert Francis
When others run to windows or out of doors
To catch the sunset whole, he is content
With any segment anywhere he sits.
From segment, fragment, he can reconstruct
The whole, prefers to reconstruct the whole,
As if to say, I see more seeing less.
A window to the east will serve as well
As window to the west, for eastern sky
Echoes the western sky. And even less—
A patch of light that picture-glass happens
To catch from window-glass, fragment of fragment,
Flawed, distorted, dulled, nevertheless
Gives something unglassed nature cannot give:
The old obliquity of art, and proves
Part may be more than whole, least may be best.
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i kinda understand the first three stanzas but after that, i'm lost. i dont get what the fourth and fifth stanza is trying to say. and can anyone explain to me what do you think the whole poem is about?
In stanza 2 he states the theme: don't need to see the whole thing, I can reconstruct it from just seeing part of it. Which is often true enough, but then he goes on to say that seeing less he sees more. Meaning more than what the others see who go out and see the whole thing. Now that is a surprising claim. Then he goes on to make it even more surprising. He says that if the part he sees is "flawed, distorted, dulled" he still sees it better than those who see the whole thing undeformed. How can he say that??? The last stanza suggests an answer but we get no details. It says that "art" gives something that "nature" cannot give. Something to do with an "obliquity", or an oblique way of seeing things that somehow captures the essence of a thing in a better way than seeing the whole thing. It may be that he is contrasting a mere "beholding of nature" that is just a kind of bare perception, to a kind of artistic "seeing" that is trained and knows what to look for and how to recognize what is important. and thus, only needs to see a part of it in order to understand its teleology (purpose, or end) and its essence.
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