By: Don Share

Don Share — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:45:59 +0000

That’s really interesting, Henry: “The means which theater has to represent situations where people can’t say what they feel – yet it’s represented anyway.”
Meanwhile, yes: reverie, contemplation as a mode of thanks-giving. And so Happy Thanksgiving to you, and thanks for all your comments here!
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By: Henry Gould

Henry Gould — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:08:59 +0000

Yes. I think along these lines…
Richard of St. Victor, back in the Middle Ages. Contemplation. Even the evil Ezra Pound was aiming for this, & wrote about it. Reverie, contemplation. A mode of thanks-giving. & what it has to do with poetry.
But lately I’ve been thinking about TS Eliot’s obsession with the primacy of dramatic poetry. The means which theater has to represent situations where people can’t say what they feel – yet it’s represented anyway.
The misunderstandings, the cruelties, the cowardice, the indifference, the vanities, the power games, that we impose on others – in our private lives. & how these acts, through their ineluctable consequences, become a judgement on our lives – our personalities, our experience, our fate.
That sphere of personal freedom & responsibility which is “literally” inexpressible – in Public Life, or Hisatory, or Philosophy… comes through in poetry, and theater.
Think about the Good Life, then… or the Kingdom of God… or Utopia…
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