11-27-2016, 07:31 PM
hey now, a textbook or research paper can be written with a ton of passion -- it tends to show in more mathematical ways, though (although some of the biology textbooks i've read sneak in a few jokes). there's a certain art to expressing thought, just as there is to expressing emotion or faith, and just because a text is supposed to focus on thought, does not mean it loses the other two (i guess Kierkegaard?)
i think of art as communication, and communication as a living, breathing process. effectively what shem wrote -- when i write for myself, it's not for the nebulous idea of self-satisfaction or mute (for if the whole world was deaf...) self-expression, it's for stroking my ego, getting all the artsy girls, intimidating all the foolish boys, impressing all the superior artistes, and, most importantly, receiving responses that help me better analyze the poem, both as an aesthetic work, so that I may be able to glean deeper thingsfrom or impress better things upon other works (for just reading a poem alters its meaning somewhat -- the goal, i feel, is either leaving so little an impression so as to let the imagery shine, or so strong a one that another poem has to be created), and as a socio-psychological-spiritual world, so that, as per the quoted text, through how people reacted to the piece, society may be influenced, or faith may be strengthened, or the part of me (for i do not believe anything, even in sciece, could be so completely detached from the self -- even in heaven, God should prefer us to some alien work) that was involved in the poem's creation may be generally improved. and so, i workshop -- well, that, and to find my voice as an artist, still possessing the double-edged sword of youth (and Age Don't Mean a Thing, Achebe, with regards to Katharine Hepburn, xP. although i'm far more stunned by Vivien Leigh and Kate Bush -- and i never really look at the later pictures.)
i think of art as communication, and communication as a living, breathing process. effectively what shem wrote -- when i write for myself, it's not for the nebulous idea of self-satisfaction or mute (for if the whole world was deaf...) self-expression, it's for stroking my ego, getting all the artsy girls, intimidating all the foolish boys, impressing all the superior artistes, and, most importantly, receiving responses that help me better analyze the poem, both as an aesthetic work, so that I may be able to glean deeper thingsfrom or impress better things upon other works (for just reading a poem alters its meaning somewhat -- the goal, i feel, is either leaving so little an impression so as to let the imagery shine, or so strong a one that another poem has to be created), and as a socio-psychological-spiritual world, so that, as per the quoted text, through how people reacted to the piece, society may be influenced, or faith may be strengthened, or the part of me (for i do not believe anything, even in sciece, could be so completely detached from the self -- even in heaven, God should prefer us to some alien work) that was involved in the poem's creation may be generally improved. and so, i workshop -- well, that, and to find my voice as an artist, still possessing the double-edged sword of youth (and Age Don't Mean a Thing, Achebe, with regards to Katharine Hepburn, xP. although i'm far more stunned by Vivien Leigh and Kate Bush -- and i never really look at the later pictures.)