Still soaked in the world of Anne Carson

In ESSAY ON WHAT I THINK ABOUT MOST Carson dicuss the concept of ERROR (which is what she thinks about most) through a poem by the ancient Greek poet Alkman:

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There are three things I like about Alkman’s poem.

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The fourth thing I like

About Alkman’s poem

Is the impression it gives

 

of blurting out the truth in spite of itself.

Many a poet aspires

to this tone of inadvertent lucidity

but few realize it so simply as Alkman.

Of course his simplicity is a fake.

Alkman is not simple at all,

 

He is a master contriver –

or what Aristotle would call an “imitator”

of reality.

Imitation (mimesis in Greek)

is Aristotle’s collective term for the true mistakes of poetry.

What I like about this term

 

Is the ease with whish it accepts

that…