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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: jbe who wrote (45826)7/16/1999 12:41:00 PM
From: nihil  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
No, I am just saying that some poetry moves me despite the nonsense -- and when it does, it is the poetic effect -- probably right side of the brain -- rather than the meaning. Now, can the poetic effect get people to accept meaning which is ordinarily repulsive to them -- e.g. "Come live with me an be my love" (which sings beautifully) even when sung to a nasty person. That's why "Dixie" with its silly words and awful associations --- young men charging into battle to preserve slavery -- still thrills people (maybe even me and you) who ought to know better. Very hard for reasonable people to hear a well read "Recessional" (say James Earl Jones at his grittiest) without breathing quietly "How true!" The problem is that great poetry does not lie quiet on the page -- but it sings and appeals to a wired-in non-censorious amoral sense -- which makes Keats's closing "Beauty is Truth... " so jarring and so memorable.
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