by Micah Towery Aesthetics
We perceive a break between images and feeling. But perhaps this break is artificial. We acknowledge that images can evoke feelings, perhaps that there is an “objective correlative” that can reliably evoke feelings. But perhaps what is being suggested here is that the category break is weaker than we think. The image (object) is already interpreted: “values are the way we see things.”
Tagged as: 100 Chinese Poems, Classics revisited, Ezra Pound, hermeneutic circle, hermeneutics, Imagism, interpretation, montage, Sunset, Translation, Tu Fu
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by Brooks Lampe Academia
Even though both the form and content of Gene Tanta’s work are particular to his Romanian-immigrant experience, he insists that his poetry is accessible to everyone. His poetry, he says, exists both as aesthetic objects and political propaganda. This is absolutely true about all poetry, not just his own. Inevitably, literary criticism will come to see that literature is always both.
Tagged as: aesthetics, american immigrant experience, Bloom, book of poems, collective memories, collective unconscious, contemporary poetry, cultural memory, Deep Image, Eliot, ESL, ESL poetry, Harold Bloom, image poetry, Imagism, immigrant, jungian, Marxism, modern poetry, reader-response, Romania, romanians, second language poetry, Simic, surrealism, Tanta, theory
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