Thursday, October 16, 2008

Monday, October 13

"The muse is a dominatrix" ~Dr. Sexson


  • Romantic view of the world
  • imagination trumps reason VS Sidney's belief that reason trumps imagination
  • "A poet is a Nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician, who feel that they are moved and softened, yet know not whence or why"
  • Yeat's "how can you know the dancer from the dance?"
  • The Painted Veil -film
  • neoplatonism
  • Plato and his evil twin: kind to poetry bec he is a poet VS mean because he banished them from the Republic
  • 'Sailing to Byzantium' by Yeats
  • idealist (DQ) vs realist (PP) but switch so you are confused as to whom is whom at the end
  • they rewire each others brains until they almost switch roles
  • the tragedy of the poet is that they write about life, instead of experiencing it
  • this reminded me of the song 'goodbye love' from Rent

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