"Soul is the place, / stretched like a surface of millstone grit between body and mind, / where such necessity grinds itself out"
— Carson, Anne (b. 1951)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
New Directions
Date
1995
Metaphor
"Soul is the place, / stretched like a surface of millstone grit between body and mind, / where such necessity grinds itself out"
Metaphor in Context
[...] There was no area of my mind
not appalled by this action, no part of my body
that could have done otherwise.
But to talk of mind and body begs the question.
Soul is the place,
stretched like a surface of millstone grit between body and mind,
where such necessity grinds itself out.
(p. 12)
not appalled by this action, no part of my body
that could have done otherwise.
But to talk of mind and body begs the question.
Soul is the place,
stretched like a surface of millstone grit between body and mind,
where such necessity grinds itself out.
(p. 12)
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Provenance
Reading
Citation
Anne Carson, Glass, Irony, and God (New York: New Directions, 1995).
Date of Entry
07/17/2010
