A poet is a beautician - enhances beauty and conceals ugliness. — TheMadFool
A poet is a beautician - enhances beauty and conceals ugliness.
— TheMadFool
You've been reading the wrong poets, mate. — Janus
Therefore, poetic metaphysics is something that can only be conceived through the incomplete visualization - not absolute but subjective - of concepts. — Gus Lamarch
I think that poetry, or poesis, is a different way of viewing the world — Jack Cummins
painting In words — Jack Cummins
touch and grasp higher, 'truths' as well — Jack Cummins
seeing their ideas as objective is questionable — Jack Cummins
underplay — Jack Cummins
I think that poetry, or poesis, is a different way of viewing the world and, in many ways, is more about intuition than logic. It also is about language to capture images and it could be seen like painting In words. It does involve subjective expression more than reason, but it can touch and grasp higher, 'truths' as well. I think that some of the poets, including William Blake, and W B Yeats, stand out as such important thinkers in their own right. But, seeing their ideas as objective is questionable, but they did create worldviews, like many novelists and romantic philosophers. — Jack Cummins
However, its "projections" - understand "projection" as what one wants to make explicit in an implicit way through poetic writing - do not allow the "substance" - understand "substance" as what even implicitly, does not become projectable because it is the fundamental basis of thought transformed into writing - of the concept itself to be perceived - external to individual interpretation — Gus Lamarch
I think that poetry, or poesis, is a different way of viewing the world and, in many ways, is more about intuition than logic. It also is about language to capture images and it could be seen like painting In words. — Jack Cummins
What is metaphysics in this context? If the discussion is to be whether poetry have it or not, then we - I - need to know. Anyone? — tim wood
erious question - Do music and visual art "support an independent metaphysics?" — T Clark
"The world of the hidden ideas of poetry" — Gus Lamarch
Now what exactly do you suppose it means? — tim wood
Personally, I believe that every essence that constitutes "aesthetic perception" and "art", is nothing more than the method that we - beings in a conscious existence - find to project unto this existence, something that is still not comprehended - emotions.
What is "beautiful" is only "beautiful" because such an object of worship projects into existence, the substance of the concept of aesthetics - like music, poetry and visual art, for example -. — Gus Lamarch
Even when we read the Sufis, we're reading an interpretation (to say the least); we're not reading the poetry as it was written. We're looking at JPEG's of Mona Lisa.
None of this is to say that some metaphysic of Poetry doesn't exist, but if it does, it's at best apprehended by the poet at the time of writing and possibly at no other time, but probably not by readers, and certainly not by dilettante philosophers hundreds of years later. — Noble Dust
this means everything that constitutes poetry (and any art form) is always in flux, which prevents any grandiose attempts by philosophy to pin the caterpillar under the glass. — Noble Dust
when I read Lao Tzu, I am trying to receive the message he sent 2,500 years ago. A message intended to transmit an experience from his mind into mine. — T Clark
I think that the way in which you describe poetry is connected to the way in which we are becoming accustomed to think and, how indeed philosophy itself has become more concerned with language. — Jack Cummins
All we can do is appropriate it to our way of reading what we think of as poetry. — Noble Dust
There are just so many factors, even just within the interpretation of current English poetry, for instance. — Noble Dust
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