Robert Bly
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Robert Bly
Throughout the 20th century, Robert Bly has provided a wealth of poetry on a
wide variety of topics. Alongside his themes, Robert Bly has also developed
different stylistic methods to convey those thoughts. Such themes vary to this
day, dealing with issues that have personally affected him, and also those of
society in general. His poetry is a time-line pondering solitude, the Vietnam
War, nature, frustration and relationships among all sorts, conveyed not only in
conventional stanzas, but in a form called "prose" poetry as well.
Contributing and inspiring to many, the work of Robert Bly provides an
interesting take on American poetry. Robert Blys' first collection of poems were
released in 1962, titled, Silence in the Snowy Fields. Divided into three
sections: "Eleven Poems of Solitude," "Awakening," and
"Silence on the Roads," all combine along with the title to explore as
Richard P. Sugg states: "human nature as twofold, consisting of both the
conscious and the unconscious. . ." A poem "Return to Solitude"
explores the conscious and unconscious aspects of human nature, relating a
desire to exist in the purest, solitary state; one of inside the womb.
"Return to solitude" seemingly jumps between the conscious and
unconscious state, all the while conveying a yearning for a more solitary
existence. The first stanza, portrays solitude via the imagery. "It is a
moonlit, windy night. / The moon has pushed out the Milky Way." Envisioning
these two lines invokes a sense of remoteness, a picture of a single, bright
moon in the night sky without any stars. "Clouds are hardly alive, and the
grass leaping. / It is the hour of return." With the clouds hardly alive,
or non-existent, the moon is now explicitly alone in the sky; an obvious image
of solitude. "It is the hour of return" in effect, makes the first
stanza a conscious thought, since it is a statement, a bold declaration that is
consciously put forth. The unconscious comes to play in the second stanza.
"We want to go back, to return to the sea," communicates a sense of
yearning within the speaker, almost as if a true desire were being confessed.
The sea is then described: "The sea of solitary corridors / And halls of
wild nights," whose imagery portrays a birth canal, a corridor and also a
hall where sexual intercourse, hence the "wild nights" would occur.
"Explosions of grief, / Diving into the sea of death," correspond to a
sexual climax, but are understood by the speaker as negative. By these ...
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