WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.120 align:middle line:90% So "'Wait For Me.' 00:00:03.120 --> 00:00:06.090 align:middle line:84% Give a man his I said to her, manliness-- 00:00:06.090 --> 00:00:10.110 align:middle line:84% provide what you want I creature comfort want only for him 00:00:10.110 --> 00:00:10.800 align:middle line:90% and herself-- 00:00:10.800 --> 00:00:11.400 align:middle line:90% more so. 00:00:11.400 --> 00:00:13.485 align:middle line:84% You preserve essential think marriage 00:00:13.485 --> 00:00:15.480 align:middle line:90% is hypocrisies-- everything? 00:00:15.480 --> 00:00:18.030 align:middle line:84% In short, make a oh well, home for herself. 00:00:18.030 --> 00:00:18.990 align:middle line:90% I said." 00:00:18.990 --> 00:00:22.170 align:middle line:84% I didn't get the rhythms right but if you do it you-- 00:00:22.170 --> 00:00:25.560 align:middle line:84% should come out together at the end. 00:00:25.560 --> 00:00:26.430 align:middle line:90% Not so easy. 00:00:26.430 --> 00:00:33.210 align:middle line:90% 00:00:33.210 --> 00:00:36.420 align:middle line:90% And one last of this section-- 00:00:36.420 --> 00:00:38.910 align:middle line:84% These first poems are all from the first part 00:00:38.910 --> 00:00:41.010 align:middle line:90% of the book, which is-- 00:00:41.010 --> 00:00:43.860 align:middle line:84% and here again we were talking about this a little earlier 00:00:43.860 --> 00:00:45.300 align:middle line:90% in the evening. 00:00:45.300 --> 00:00:46.800 align:middle line:90% I wanted to see-- 00:00:46.800 --> 00:00:48.900 align:middle line:84% because again, Olson had made me sensitive to what 00:00:48.900 --> 00:00:52.530 align:middle line:84% the line could register as a possibility. 00:00:52.530 --> 00:00:54.030 align:middle line:84% If one thought of it-- as he put it, 00:00:54.030 --> 00:00:57.120 align:middle line:84% he used, I feel that the sense of breath which he speaks of 00:00:57.120 --> 00:01:01.170 align:middle line:84% has primarily let's say a metaphoric sense. 00:01:01.170 --> 00:01:04.290 align:middle line:84% By which I mean, I don't think he actually wanted people 00:01:04.290 --> 00:01:06.180 align:middle line:84% to time their breathing with a metronome 00:01:06.180 --> 00:01:08.250 align:middle line:84% or something of that-- or to become 00:01:08.250 --> 00:01:10.140 align:middle line:84% so self-conscious about their breathing 00:01:10.140 --> 00:01:12.872 align:middle line:84% that they simply panted through poems. 00:01:12.872 --> 00:01:14.580 align:middle line:84% But I think what he was actually pointing 00:01:14.580 --> 00:01:20.070 align:middle line:84% to was the fact that after the breath is issue of or is 00:01:20.070 --> 00:01:23.550 align:middle line:84% in relation to what emotions are felt. 00:01:23.550 --> 00:01:25.800 align:middle line:84% So anyhow, my translation of what he was thinking of 00:01:25.800 --> 00:01:30.570 align:middle line:84% is simply that the line can act as a qualification 00:01:30.570 --> 00:01:32.460 align:middle line:84% rhythmically-- as a rhythmic unit-- can 00:01:32.460 --> 00:01:36.930 align:middle line:84% act as a qualification of how the feeling is coming. 00:01:36.930 --> 00:01:39.270 align:middle line:84% Or what you are feeling about what you're saying. 00:01:39.270 --> 00:01:41.400 align:middle line:84% How you are feeling what you're saying. 00:01:41.400 --> 00:01:46.860 align:middle line:84% So then a poem of this kind, the line is used-- 00:01:46.860 --> 00:01:48.450 align:middle line:84% and already by this point, it's become 00:01:48.450 --> 00:01:50.040 align:middle line:84% almost a sophistication-- the line is 00:01:50.040 --> 00:01:56.280 align:middle line:84% used to make an emphasis upon the statement in such a way 00:01:56.280 --> 00:01:58.530 align:middle line:84% that the feelings that the statement is concerned 00:01:58.530 --> 00:02:00.360 align:middle line:90% with become emphasized. 00:02:00.360 --> 00:02:04.070 align:middle line:84% So I'll read it, and perhaps it'll become clear.