![]() ![]() ![]() Having realized by now that chaos is the thing which envelops him, the speaker recognizes that he is unable to paint chaos or render in his art, which corresponds neatly to the "crisis of vision" he experienced over his parents' deaths (25). Fate, however, is a word the speaker treats with great cynicism, and he states that anything which has the appearance of fate is merely a local coincidence in a grand scheme of chaos. ![]() From here, the speaker then confronts what he may be scared to face in himself, and he settles on fate. It is also the third of the "painter poems" in the collection-that is, those poems which follow the story of the English painter introduced in "Faithful and Virtuous Night." It picks up right where "Cornwall" left off, reflecting on the abstruse and elliptical language of the poem explicitly as a defense mechanism: "a kind of artificial mist of the sort / sprayed onto stages to allow for difficult set changes" (4–5). "Afterword" is the eleventh poem in Louise Glück's Faithful and Virtuous Night. ![]()
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