05-10-2015, 12:49 AM
Dulce et Utile?
Also maybe this idea I got from reading Joseph Campbell: like, the process of creating or reading poetry could be compared to the Hero's Journey, where the ultimate goal is to get a boon or reconcile oneself with the father (destroy inner demons while at the same time getting some internal sense of power or something) or marry the mother-goddess (like, maybe develop a fuller appreciation of nature) or become a god of your own one poem at a time, and return to society either to establish a definite, individual role, or to turn around the conventions of society around you and make it all better or whatever. A bit, I dunno, mythic or whatever, but with all the associations he has with Jungian concepts of the subconscious, and with the idea of poetry being a self-contained social expression of ideas through ironic, dream-like images, and with the other idea of poetry as being a passage in time and space (a la how one experiences the narrative of a dream -- a meaningful in depth semi-personal analysis of the everything of the work that almost always involves the subconscious), seems way more valid than it maybe should be.
Also maybe this idea I got from reading Joseph Campbell: like, the process of creating or reading poetry could be compared to the Hero's Journey, where the ultimate goal is to get a boon or reconcile oneself with the father (destroy inner demons while at the same time getting some internal sense of power or something) or marry the mother-goddess (like, maybe develop a fuller appreciation of nature) or become a god of your own one poem at a time, and return to society either to establish a definite, individual role, or to turn around the conventions of society around you and make it all better or whatever. A bit, I dunno, mythic or whatever, but with all the associations he has with Jungian concepts of the subconscious, and with the idea of poetry being a self-contained social expression of ideas through ironic, dream-like images, and with the other idea of poetry as being a passage in time and space (a la how one experiences the narrative of a dream -- a meaningful in depth semi-personal analysis of the everything of the work that almost always involves the subconscious), seems way more valid than it maybe should be.