by phillipw | May 3, 2020 | HE, PH, PL, PO, SO
What We Drink Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Who wants thick wisdom first in poems? It Is ours for chewing in the pleasures of The scrolls of Plato, thinkers who permit The thought that pleasure...
by phillipw | May 2, 2020 | LO, PA, PH, PO
Just Plato? “But a man who has nothing more valuable than what he has composed or written, who has spent his time twisting words, sticking them together and pulling them apart is rightly called a poet or a speech writer or a maker of laws.” ~...
by phillipw | Apr 29, 2020 | MO, PO
Modernism’s and Post Modernism’s Mobs Let’s wreck the things of beauty just because We’re bored and new. Let’s wreck the lovely old Things out of jealousy. Let’s break their laws Lest we learn we are lousy. Let’s be bold, Destroy the music, art, and writing if We...
by phillipw | Apr 28, 2020 | IN, PL, PO, SO
Mixed Race Divinity and Humanity Go to the link: https://images.app.goo.gl/afEGMDrkc96exuSm7 Socrates “builds up a picture of the poet as ‘a light, winged, holy creature’, who cannot compose until he is out of his mind and possessed . . . . The god takes away the...
by phillipw | Apr 27, 2020 | AE, BE, ES, LI, PL, PO
Plato Pooh-poohs Poets, like Blaming a Leopard for not Being an Antelope Poor Plato misses, glaringly, the point, As eggheads often do. Poets, he “thinks,” Are worse than useless. That’s due to their joint Mistake of using mimesis (which stinks)...
by phillipw | Apr 27, 2020 | IN, PL, PO
Sing in Me, Rational Muse! Plato’s “descriptions of poetic inspiration occur over a long period of time, ranging from his earliest works to his latest, and there is considerable uniformity in what says. Throughout P.’s work the mental state of the inspired poet is...
