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"To be rebellious and to distrust rebellion is the plight of the tragic artist. Daring is dangerous." True. I wonder how much ED thought she was being daring? Maybe in the sense that she wrote what was in her heart and mind - because to reveal oneself is an act of daring - but did she think of herself as rebellious? I imagine her as someone who questions - is asking questions a form of daring rebellion? Probably.
— Dec 02, 2019 01:20PM
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Imagine being a pastor of a church and you attempt to do the right thing, but because it goes against the economic interests of your congregation they kick you out so they can go on ... sinning. Times never do change, do they. People hear what they want and will make sure even God gives them the permission they want to not have to change.
— Dec 02, 2019 01:41PM
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"Good intentions prove nothing," true; "Faith proves nothing," and I disagree with this because faith proves faith, Faith is its own proof. And not just in something religious, but even of oneself - faith in oneself proves faith in oneself, to be daring, to be rebellious, to listen and have faith.
Never have a found a book so profoundly brilliant and infuriating at the same damn time.
— Dec 02, 2019 01:29PM
Never have a found a book so profoundly brilliant and infuriating at the same damn time.
Dan
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Again these statements she makes are odd: "War is the father of us all" seems far to general and sweeping and, honestly, a little insipid. What does this even mean? I mean, what does it really mean ... is she saying that strife and murder conjoin with nurture to produce? what, exactly? I see war as something that happens to us, not as something that gives us half of our DNA.
— Dec 02, 2019 01:26PM
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Odd how Keates wrote about reading King Lear, an old man at the end of his life when Keates is eternally young. Is it the same as when I, nearing 50, read Keats to prime the pump of his youthful well hoping to find youth there, just as he thought about nature and age and wandering through the barren landscape of ... what, exactly? Was he mapping the topography of aging? of time?
— Dec 02, 2019 01:24PM
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Did Shakespeare have a "volcanic loathing for women?" He was equally able to peel back anyone's skin to find their soul - I'd argue he didn't much care for anyone, man or woman, which made him able to see them for all their good and evil. You sort of have to hate humanity to find a way to actually love it and know why you love it and express why you love it. If you always love, you never question it.
— Dec 02, 2019 12:57PM
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For in truth art lies hidden with nature, he who can wrest it from her, has it," Albrecht Durur.
— Dec 02, 2019 12:51PM
Dan
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OK, now THIS I can totally get behind in that she's naming the gun (is the gun) in the way of myth where swords had names, "Beowulf had Naegling, Sigmund owned Gram, Roland - Durandel, Hauteclere belonged to Oliver, and the Lady of the Lake lent Excalibur to Arthur". But here she is not only gun / sword, but giver and wielder. She's all three and thus encompasses myth.
— Dec 02, 2019 12:31PM
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"In myth at any time, a woman may suddenly change form. Ariadne became a spider, Alcyone, a bird, Niobe, a stone", thus like ED who, in poetry, also shape-shifts.
— Dec 02, 2019 12:23PM
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"A poem is an invocation, rebellious return to the blessedness of beginning again, wandering free in pure process of forgetting and finding."
A frontier, a new beginning, but what comes after the beginning of even a poem? Is a poem always a beginning? What happens after a poem?
— Dec 02, 2019 12:12PM
A frontier, a new beginning, but what comes after the beginning of even a poem? Is a poem always a beginning? What happens after a poem?
