Today’s Poem: At Melville’s Tomb

Hart Crane’s chain of association

J.M.W. Turner, Rough Sea with Wreckage, c. 1843 (Wikimedia Commons)

There is a kind of poetry that moves by association, a loose metonymy that names something by something associated with it, then jumps to something associated with that association, then to some further association, and a further . . . and a further . . .

I’ve written on this topic before…