{"id":433,"date":"2024-01-24T22:58:32","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T22:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/?p=433"},"modified":"2024-01-24T22:58:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T22:58:50","slug":"sequence-by-jamie-kckendrick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/24\/sequence-by-jamie-kckendrick\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Sequence’ by Jamie McKendrick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I\u2019m using this poem in an MA class this week \u2013 offering it, perhaps unfairly, as the archetypal literary sequence in miniature. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s what it set out to be; the title is punning on \u2018quince\u2019 and the whole thing is obviously an extension of that joke (15 lines in total; \u2018quince\u2019 is Spanish for 15). But it does serve my purpose. Despite it being made up of individual, haiku-esque tercets, there are strong indications of time passing between each stanza: fruiting follows flowering, \u2018Exile\u2019 begins \u201cBy now\u201d, and reference is made to \u2018transience\u2019. I\u2019m not sure what to make of the weird chronological inversion whereby oil paints turn up long after an iPhone, or the sudden appearance of Shakespearean English \u2013 perhaps, in keeping with the theme of renewal, the history of the world is cycling round and round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The word \u2018quince\u2019 repeats throughout like a series of haphazard stitches, and softer echoes of that word are frequent: \u2018one\u2019, \u2018borne\u2019, \u2018whence\u2019, \u2018wind\u2019, \u2018since\u2019, \u2018white\u2019, \u2018sweeten\u2019. Hence we have the essence of the sequence, how it differs from a narrative: something is being held in place, squirmingly, even as everything around it changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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