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25 August 2005: I've referred to the "ubergestalt" before, or a poem's unifying principle, if it has one. I claim that if it doesn't, it is not a single poem, but a set of poems. In any case, it is a mechanism that has to be included any list of what a poem can have. It would be part of a poem's content. A form could not, by itself, unify a poem enough to serve as an ubergestalt.
On second thought, scratch that. I'm supposed to be investigating the nature of poetry, so should loosen back to the statement that a poem can have an ubergestalt, which may be part of its content or form or both.
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