Introduction

Some themes and reoccurring ideas or tropes in AoR: ***P65—is a perfect echo of an essay by Czeslaw Milosz. Beauty—throughout. A word which also had particular meanings for each Romantic poet—you may recall Keats’ or Byron’s notions of Beauty from last year. Volcano—p105, 108 (and ref to Dickinson poem on the topic); 128-129; 135

Versions of Volcanoes: Lava—p98 Language as material—p26 (Each); p 31 (words as ash); p39 (2 eels…recognized each other like italics); page 83 (the German words flying in circles); Time as material/made of something—pages 80, 90, 91(ish), 93 (what is time made of—revealed, w/combo to p92 to be G’s favorite question), Color as having sound (synesthesia) for example on page 84 Monster—pages 6 (monstrosity v culture); 9, 12, 37, 82, 88*, 92 (Aristotle comparing Skeptics to vegetables and monsters) ; 102 (blame for redness?); 129 H as a/the “master of monsters”; Versions of monster—reflection, p 57 “Himself in that mirror cruel as a slash of lipstick”; pp96-97 subnormals, people with tails; p99 “gnome” waitor; p136 “monstrous rectangles”; Wings—pages 12, 13, 14, 36, 37, 53, 71(2x), 82, 83; 97 (2x) (recognized as a kind of odd birth defect like the 12percent born with tails/self portrait with wings “No tail!”); 109 (2x); 127-129; 144; 145 Versions of wings—pages 55, page 74 (H’s bird dream); p81 (plane wings) (96)