Releasing the Moment in Clampitt’s Poem Fog Essay -- Clampitt Fog Essa

The photographer sights, clicks, stops the moment is captured the vision settles. The poet sights, clicks, begins the moment is released the vision starts. Tess Gallagher says, the poem is always the enemy of the photograph. The art of poetry demands more than than external vision a poem takes the reader outside and inside to see, hear, touch, and feel every detail. In Amy Clampitts poem Fog, she immerses the readers senses in the entirety of the moments external grace and its secret inner core. Clampitt seeks out what is hidden to the eye. She wants what the camera cannot record. Her subject allows her to show off poetrys distinct function and strength. Fog obscures, shrouds, limits, dissolves it defeats sight. Fog reveals, illuminates, widens, and intensifies it gives sight. There is a pleasing poetic irony in Clampitts ability to render so comprise to the minds eye precisely what the eyes themselves cannot see at all. A vagueness comes over everything, / as though proving color and contour / alike unnecessary (Clampitt 610). As things disappear, the lighthou...