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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA 
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I've just begun reading this book by Robert Graves, and have found something that I want to share with you: quote: I'd like to hear your opinions on this, and what you feel about it. Thanks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world. |
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Interloper
since 2000-11-06
Posts 8369Deep in the heart |
I'd give you my opinion by I don't understand the statement. The function of poetry is different for the reader than the author. Sounds like too broad of a statement to me  |
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catalinamoon
since 2000-06-03
Posts 9543The Shores of Alone |
I think poetry is just that, to the writer, anyway. Sandra |
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Brad Member Ascendant
since 1999-08-20
Posts 5705Jejudo, South Korea |
This, in a way, is the Romantic definition of poetry. I disagree slightly but only slightly. Poetry (or more precisely, this thing we call literature and even that can subsumed under art.), the best of it, is about transformation of self. It's about seeing the world and your self in that world differently. The danger is that you can't predict where that transformation will lead you. More later, Brad |
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hush Senior Member
since 2001-05-27
Posts 1653Ohio, USA |
I agree with Interloper. The statement is way too broad... it's also very vague, since the word Muse can invoke dozens of images... loose spiritual references don't work for me... and in this context, sounded a little pretentious... I think people have a tendancy to write vaguely and use wordy veils in an attempt to make themselves sound smarter, or deeper- or, to be less judgemental and biased, I should say to make their message sound more involved than it really is... hold on, there's an Allen Ginsberg poem that explains what I'm saying better than I can: (I hope I don't get edited for copyright infringement.. do i get away with it if I only post part?) this is from 'On Burroughs Work' The method must be purest meat and no symbolic dressing, actual visions & actual prisons as seen then and now. ...... A naked lunch is natural to us, we eat reality sandwiches. But allegories are so much lettuce. Don't hide the madness. I eat only sleep and air -Nicole Blackman |
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Jericha Satchel Junior Member
since 2001-11-04
Posts 11 |
It's twaddle (as it stands). |
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Brad Member Ascendant
since 1999-08-20
Posts 5705Jejudo, South Korea |
I suppose if you read it literally, I'd have to agree with the general trend here, but I don't read it that way. It's a metaphor to explain the dialectical relationship of risk and opportunity present in any good poem I've ever read. If you accept the Muse as writing something 'new' in Ezra Pound's words, I think there is a genuine feeling of horror and exaltation in the best poetry. I don't think there's anything spiritual or transcendental to this, I just think it happens. I see this in the same light as an article at the Melic review that called poetry 'reverse prayer.' I see this in the same light as Auden's authentic voice. Or Frost's 'ulterior' Or Hollander's 'fictive'. Honestly, flawed as it may be (in conflating the aesthetic experience with a spirtual one), I think it's a better description than 'self-expression' which implies a lot more than most people expect. Brad |
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