The Nominal Poet, Open

"Folks  expect of the poet to indicate more than the beauty and dignity which always attach to dumb real objects...They expect him to indicated the path between reality and their souls."

To be nominal is to be able to look past the world that is appearances and draw a deeper and more intellectual reality. When presented with a desk, the phenomenal bard quickly comes to the conclusion on how the desk is used, what the desk is made of, and the appearance of the desk. Their evaluation would look like this: 'The desk located at one side of the classroom is the teacher's desk, on it is her belongings and it is where she spends a lot of her day. It has four legs and a top.' A nominal bard, if truly nominal, would describe the desk like this: 'The desk is located on the north side of the classroom, side furthest from the door to dodge interruption from late students and for that she could watch them do their tasks. Her desk is cluttered with work but also with secret love letters of the poet in three classrooms over, but they are tucked away from the noticing eye. By the way she hovers around it, it is very probable, and the age suggests, that the desk had belonged to a dead relative or some kind of royalty. The legs were rotting under the mound of papers on the desk's plane.' 
        The nominal speaker draws connects to things that the eye can't see and only the soul can feel. The nominal poet opens up a world that is uncombattable and true.