From Orient Shores

From Orient Shores argues that modernist orthodoxy—T.S. Eliot's objective correlative and the injunction to "e;show, don't tell"e;—can sterilize emotion. While honoring Eliot's achievements, the book contends that when showing becomes dogma, poetry risks cleverness without ache. The author proposes a subjective correlative: a balance of image and named feeling that invites empathy rather than puzz...