Analysis Of A Situation Rimbaud

The thoughtful speaker in “Analysis of a Situation” also looks back over her past life and relates a pervasive sense of anxiety to fears about weakened creativity as she says: “There was a point everything went wrong/ A word, an act, some insufficiency./ And ever since that time the gift of song/ has come with more and more anxiety” ( 264 ). In these deleted poems she expresses anxiety about her role as a poet and tries to gain a sense of renewed continuity with the acclaimed youth and with the younger Jennings who achieved a “true adjustment of art to self” when she composed the “Fountain.”
Occupying the central place in the world in the period following the hospital experiences, Lucidities gives Jennings the breathing space she needed to …show more content…
In “A Decision,”: “All my love is lapped around in tears,” “Nor can I wring// A false tear from a false dismay,”/ “You burst into weeping and my first reaction was shock” (265) are few examples from the many lines in the poems describing both the mood of the poet and the helpless situation.
The other poems which triumph over the defeatist and the pessimistic attitudes are the ones devoted to the art and the life of the artist Rimbaud. Her description of the poet and his art light up the dark feeling in the book. They provide a new center of attention and Jennings portray the relationship between art and life, artist and the poet in a complex and rolling way. Technically the rhythms create a flow. This is especially in the poem dealing with Rimbaud’s artistic treatment of women, and his point of view; the poet manages to share the latter and presents many of the qualities of the artist, and in so doing, reveals her own emotions for both art and poetry. In “‘Rooks’ by Rimbaud,” she says:
Where the river rests, Dry and yellow, by Crosses And ditches come forward, come In your thousands, over dear France, Where many are still asleep. This is truly your