Blog detail
alms for oblivion
http://almsforoblivion.blogspot.com
- Author: piers i. lewis
- Listed in: Big History Cultural
- Added on: Mar 23rd, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
There are some things I want to think about--modernity and its discontents for starters, which includes just about everything . . .
Recent Viewers
alms for oblivion's Neighborhood
Recent Posts
The Trial, by Franz Kafka
Kafka's fable, published in 1925 (a year after he died), is work of purely imaginative art. It has no basis in fact, serves no political interest, earned Kafka no money. It's object is truth, not literal, of course, but poetic or metaphorical: here i...
Nowhere Man
You know how the song goes:He's a real nowhere manSitting in his nowhere landMaking all his nowhere plans for nobodyDoesn't have a point of viewKnows not where he's going toIsn't he a bit like you and me?Now that's pure poetry and song, the sort of t...
Pure Poetry: Can of Worms or Net Full Of Butterfies?
Both. The subject of pure poetry--or they used to say back in the Pre-Postmodern era, art-for-art's-sake--is a sort of Pandora's Box of questions, problems and conundrums, and therefore a can-of-worms. On the other hand, pure poems when you know what...
Pure Poetry
Poetry has no other aim or object but herself....Truth has nothing to do with Song.... With these words, Baudelaire cut himself and poetry loose from a couple thousand years of literary tradition. I don't know if he got this idea from Poe or if he or...
'romantic' & 'romanticism'--again, but for the last time
I've concluded that these words have no useful meaning--if they ever did. They do not enable us to make useful distinctions. What do we know that we didn't know before when we call a poem 'romantic'? Nothing. None of the Romantic poets, so-called, ca...