May Swenson's Unconscious Came a Beauty
Poet May Swenson writes about conventional subjects, such as love, and, through her poetry, she argues that it is the common occurrences that matter to the creative mind. Inspiration permeates the form in Swenson's poetry. She creates a relationship with the reader by having her speaker be a poet, inspired by an everyday life experience. In her poem, "Unconscious Came a Beauty," Swenson suggests that the inspiration for poetry should come from a natural experience; however, inspiration is momentary, and poetry comes from not only the inspiration, but also the energy that the poet gleans from it. In "Unconscious Came a Beauty," Swenson uses poetic layering: she writes a poem about a poet writing a poem inspired by the natural world. The speaker-poet is holding a pencil, which the butterfly stops when it lands on her wrist. The speaker was in the initial act of writing a poem, but the butterfly stops her, as though to say that what she was going to write on her own would not be nearly as great as what she can write with the butterfly's help. The butterfly and the speaker become one, as the butterfly "merge[s] its shadow profile with/ [her] hand's ghost" (5-6). The poet's hand acts like a vessel for the butterfly's inspirational energy to flow, and this natural experience helps the poet write better poetry. Swenson suggests that without natural inspiration the speaker's poetry is lifeless, since the poetic hand is a ghost, and the speaker needs the butterfly to revive her writing. The merging of the shadow and the ghost is a metaphor for the natural beauty and experience of the butterfly giving new life to the speaker's poetry. To emphasize this metaphor, Swenson gives th...
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...like a butterfly, and the poet should take his or her newfound knowledge to write a poem. However, the butterfly must fly away because it is only the inspiration; the poet must write the poem.
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