I want to talk about Steve’s point of what “poetics” means and he describes it has a singular and plural, then he describes it has “theory of form”. then goes into his idea of ocean thinking when it comes to Poetics. How we read poetry and novels and flip our mindset to an ocean way of thinking to discover this theory of the ocean and how it relates to us and art.

An Everywhere of Silver,
With Ropes of Sand
To keep it from effacing
The Track called Land.

“The Silver does not efface the Land in this poem… The sea-silver the poet presents feels
like a cloud when you walk through it on an alpine hike—soft, wet, intangible, insistently
present” it may be obvious to some that Dickinson is talking about the ocean in this poem but some to not so but its the way this poem is so small but so much unpack. This idea of looking at the ocean maybe on a winter morning and only seeing silver everywhere is so striking to me, and he usage of effacing, I just love the word choice, sand being the reason why the ocean comes to a stop and how we have a clear defining point to land and ocean