AG: Of “melodic coherence” – “O Thou steeled Cognizance” – that’s a line of Hart Crane – “O thou steeled Cognizance” – “O Thou steeled Cognizance” – “Oh-ow-ee-oo!” – “O Thou steeled Cognizance” (it’s the beginning of a stanza of Hart Crane’s “Atlantis”
“O Thou steeled Cognizance whose leap commits/The agile precincts of the lark’s return//Within whose lariat sweep encintured sing/ In single chrysalis the many twain;/Of stars/Thou art the stitch and stallion glow/And like an organ, Thou, with sound of doom – Sight, sound and flesh/ Thou leadest from time’s realm/As love strikes clear direction for the helm.”
– “O Thou steeled Cognizance whose leap..”/ “O Thou steeled Cognizance whose..”/ “O Thou steeled Cognizance whose leap..,”/ “O Thou steeled Cognizance whose leap permits”/ “O Thou steeled Cognizance whose leap permits the the agile precincts of the lark’s return”/ “O Thou steeled Cognizance whose leap permits the agile precincts of the lark’s return/ Within whose lariat sweep encintured..” – “Within whose lariat sweep encintured sing”/ “Within whose lariat sweep encintured sing in single chrysalis the many twain…”
“Within whose..” “encinctured” – ( belted, belted in) – “Within whose lariat sweep – (something about the Brooklyn Bridge) – “Within whose lariat sweep” – “encinctured” – (gathered together) -” sing/In single chrysalis the many twain” – “O Thou steeled” – (the steeled Bridge) – ” O Thou steeled Cognizance” – (intelligence or something, intelligence turned into steel – they had to know how to plan it out, know how to make a blue-print) – “” “O Thou steeled Cognizance” “whose leap” – (from Manhattan to Brooklyn) -“O Thou steeled Cognizance whose leap commits/The agile precincts of the lark’s return” – (In other words, the lark going north and then coming south) -“agile” – (fluttering around) – “precincts” – (you know, like the cops precinct – “precincts of the lark”) – “O Thou steeled Cognizance whose leap commits/The agile precincts of the lark’s return//Within whose lariat sweep encintured..” – (that’s the belt, belted in, cincture, you put on your cincture) – “encintured sing” “In single chrysalis” – (like a flower’s chrysalis) – “the many twain”
Okay, so it’s the melodic coherence I’m talking about, not the meaning. There is a melodic coherence to that, coming from the vowels. Is that clear?
Audio for the above can be heard here, beginning at at approximately ten minutes in and concluding at approximately twelve and a quarter minutes in