‘in ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds’  

from Wallace Steven’s poem The Idea of Order at Key West  

 

ghostlier and keener:  these words are not so simple as to be opposites;  they share more connectivity than that.    

 

Dim or faint are taken as synonyms for ghostly; sharp or acute for keen.  These fail. 

 

Stevens has found the perfect union with these words; this is genius.  

 

And mind the orienteering nouns, demarcations, sounds.  

 

Demarcations:  bondage versus the absence of bewilderment.

   

Sounds.  A cry from the wild! Arresting us, stopping us in our tracks, as a threat is out there, beyond but imminent.

   

Keener  is ‘immanence’ as it takes an un-bewildered sense to still this cry , a sense not jammed by fear. 

 

The revolutionaries shall overcome the sound of feeling and feeling itself.

 

No sound of feeling,

no feeling,

no past,

freedom. 

 

This is the revolution.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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* ‘low-lying energies’ , the phrase comes from the great and good  post: http://open.salon.com/blog/romanticpoetess/2011/12/18/what_is_a_poet