I am reading “The Matter with Things” by McGilchrist right now and a definitely going down the rabbit hole of the left and right mind. I love the association you make here.
To me, poetry can’t just be a “deepity,” Dennet’s term for “an apparently profound observation that is ambiguous. To the extant that it is true, it is trivial. To the extent that it is profound, it is false and would in fact be astonishing if true. The opposite of a profundity. “
It has to leap the tracks as it were, using whatever moves it can to make something jump out of the words that isn’t precisely contained by them. Everything is game: shape, sound, allegorical and historical reference, the play of etymology, culture, narrative, politics, and the personal. What is important is that when you turn the key, it dances a bit.
Your commentary on the relationship between metaphor and self reminds me of Douglas Hofstadter’s contention that analogy is the core of all cognition: cognition occurs when two concepts mirror one another, analogy. Without metaphor, what is the self except one side of that mirror, unable to reflect, or be, anything.
Language that doesn't insist on being listened to can hardly be called poetry. It can only be called communication without firmly grasping its sound between cheek and tongue.
How lovely!
I am reading “The Matter with Things” by McGilchrist right now and a definitely going down the rabbit hole of the left and right mind. I love the association you make here.
To me, poetry can’t just be a “deepity,” Dennet’s term for “an apparently profound observation that is ambiguous. To the extant that it is true, it is trivial. To the extent that it is profound, it is false and would in fact be astonishing if true. The opposite of a profundity. “
It has to leap the tracks as it were, using whatever moves it can to make something jump out of the words that isn’t precisely contained by them. Everything is game: shape, sound, allegorical and historical reference, the play of etymology, culture, narrative, politics, and the personal. What is important is that when you turn the key, it dances a bit.
Your commentary on the relationship between metaphor and self reminds me of Douglas Hofstadter’s contention that analogy is the core of all cognition: cognition occurs when two concepts mirror one another, analogy. Without metaphor, what is the self except one side of that mirror, unable to reflect, or be, anything.
Language that doesn't insist on being listened to can hardly be called poetry. It can only be called communication without firmly grasping its sound between cheek and tongue.
Less poetry and more useless shower thoughts.
refreshingly reassuring… that those who strive to preserve the anima of true poetry aren’t dead, after all. a good read… thanks!
>>Up until about half a century ago every person who has ever existed has been “religious.”
Pop history would have us think so, but...no.
The problem I suppose being define religion.
If you define it as unquestioning faith, then there is exactly as much religion now as there has ever been. ;)