According to Richard Kearney, how does Bachelard define the poetic instant in terms of vertical time? How does this concept connect to the idea of the beautiful versus the sublime?
Bachelard -- a scientist turned aesthete -- declares that "The poet is thus the natural guide for the metaphysician" (40). How does it relate back to the theories of ecocriticism, principally in terms of human and nature shifting and merging as subject and object?
Consider the selected poems. Do they display, or engage with, this idea of vertical time? (Please reference specific poems & cite lines from them as necessary.) Do they act as "guides" to our understanding of the natural world, or more particularly, the "unbounded and unmitigated dynamic of global change" (Ellis)?
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