Every poem is an ambush or a trap. And until the reader springs the trap and falls astonished into another world he hasn’t made contact with the poem. In [“The Solitary Reaper”] Wordsworth breaks into a new world. He isolates and defines a state of mind that nobody ever discovered before or since. The camera eye assisted by sound effects will help student and teacher to discover the magic formula that will open the secret world that is every great poem.
“Camera Eye on Poetry” (1955), unpublished typescript, p 5
Year: 1955
Chapter:
Teaching
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan