Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Questions for "Plenos poderes"/"Full Powers"

  1. In the first stanza, why might the night inhibit the speaker from writing?
  2. What could the “keys” in line 8 unlock for the speaker? What do you think he means by “night” and “darkness in the second stanza?
  3. In line 14, what does the speaker mean by “I am weary neither of being nor of non-being”? Explain.
  4. What could the speaker mean by his “debts to minerality” (line 17)?
  5. Why does the speaker “keep on going,” according to lines 19-20?
  6. Why might the poem be titled “Full Powers”? What is the source of the speaker's creative powers?

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