Comments on: April 21: Stan Rice’s “Tornado at Night” http://poem-a-day.knopfdoubleday.com/2011/04/21/stan-rice/ Knopf Doubleday Wed, 16 May 2012 19:08:01 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 hourly 1 By: R. L. Lyons http://poem-a-day.knopfdoubleday.com/2011/04/21/stan-rice/comment-page-1/#comment-45332 R. L. Lyons Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:04:17 +0000 http://knopfdoubleday.com/?p=16229#comment-45332 Stan Rice’s “Tornado at Night,” uses metaphor in his unique way to bring a sort of poetic sanity to a raging storm. His use of the Caryatids to bring personification to an otherwise prosaic service station is superb. His line, "And went walking in excess," to poetically represent himself, engaging a terrible storm, by saying he was in "excess," makes us nostalgic for ancient days. Yes, there was a time that man could tempt the gods. Oh; if only they could be closer to us now, and we could be Übermenschen to respond. He shows that poetry can be all consuming, even in situations encumbered with death and destruction. R.L.L. Stan Rice’s “Tornado at Night,” uses metaphor in his unique way to bring a sort of poetic sanity to a raging storm. His use of the Caryatids to bring personification to an otherwise prosaic service station is superb.

His line, “And went walking in excess,” to poetically represent himself, engaging a terrible storm, by saying he was in “excess,” makes us nostalgic for ancient days.

Yes, there was a time that man could tempt the gods. Oh; if only they could be closer to us now, and we could be Übermenschen to respond.

He shows that poetry can be all consuming, even in situations encumbered with death and destruction.

R.L.L.

]]> By: Ronald Lewis http://poem-a-day.knopfdoubleday.com/2011/04/21/stan-rice/comment-page-1/#comment-45329 Ronald Lewis Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:59:41 +0000 http://knopfdoubleday.com/?p=16229#comment-45329 Stan was my main mentor during my college years; Kay Boyle and Denise Levertov were the others. I remember him reading his own poems in class. I can tell you that he was a vibrant, gifted teacher of poetry, far beyond the quality of his own poems, such as the one presented publicly today. Unfortunately, at the time of his death, that he died more a painter than poet was our own considerable fault in assessing his fame being linked to whom he was married, rather than his poetic side. Stan was my main mentor during my college years; Kay Boyle and Denise Levertov were the others. I remember him reading his own poems in class. I can tell you that he was a vibrant, gifted teacher of poetry, far beyond the quality of his own poems, such as the one presented publicly today. Unfortunately, at the time of his death, that he died more a painter than poet was our own considerable fault in assessing his fame being linked to whom he was married, rather than his poetic side.

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