Mast Tree
- Richard Mather
- Sep 8, 2022
- 1 min read
By Richard Mather
The
piling
up of
words
into
units,
struc-
tures,
towers,
is what
might be
termed
the
phallic
unity
of
lang-
uage.
It was
Hulme
who said
words
ought to
‘stand up’
so that
a poem
is like
a tree
when
the
leaves
are
cut
off --
it ‘be-
comes
a mast’.
