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...
by phillipw | Apr 27, 2020 | PO
The Poet! “light, winged, holy creature” ~ The words of Socrates to describe a poet, as quoted in Penelope Murray, Plato on Poetry, 8 That’s always how I’ve thought about myself, Yup, yes, of course, at least when I have thought Of me as “poet”—surely...
by phillipw | Apr 26, 2020 | AE, ES, ID, PE, PO
The Triune Potency According to Penelope Murray, “Socrates . . . . says, ‘any story or poem . . . narrates things past, present or future’ ”. ~ Plato on Poetry, 4 We want a poem that is full of now, And past, and future, full. We want intense Severity of...
