Susan Stewart

Susan Stewart, in her Poetry and the Fate of the Senses, says that poetry is an attempt on the part humanity to bring finitude to a seemingly infinite world. The base metaphor is that of light and darkness. Darkness, she says, is the presence of eternality and immortality, the limitless uknown. She says, “In the darkness all territory is without bound or name, all lines are crossed, all acts are improvisational in their means and ends…”