Word: poetic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wole Soyinka, a Nigerian-born author of novels and plays, was cited by the Swedish Academy of Letters as a writer "who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence...
Poems also create their own state of mind, and politics does that as well. Paul Valery defined a poem as a "kind of machine for producing the poetic state of mind by means of words." The politician produces the political state of mind by means of words. Each does an act of hypnosis by persuading its audience that reality is the world that the poet or politician has constructed for them. In that, the two are equally imaginative. The world they create is an unreality. Yet that world must be grounded in reality, in facts -- the real toads in imaginary...
...themselves equally memorable for their semiprivate lives. Tennessee Williams was once described as the most famous playwright in the world; he remarked ruefully that he would rather be known as the best. In his final years Williams' talent faded, but his persona, a blend of alcoholic misbehavior, grandiose overstatement, poetic sensitivity and terminally naughty wit, raged on. To his indignation and amusement, the notoriety transcended the art. Last year brought two scandal- tinged biographies of the playwright, who died in 1983. Last week saw the arrival of a far more affectionate event, Confessions of a Nightingale, an ingratiatingly salty impersonation...
...ENSUING DRAMA, which includes a hallucinatory hunt in a magical forest for a stag with golden horns and a giant, kite-like bear, is poetic drama. The images are so pure and bewitching that even a love scene between Angela and the puppet of an aged, decrepit man operated by three people is humourously touching...
...cool artsy line-and-shadow shot after another flashes on the screen. Wheatfields stretch into the distance, crooked fences reflect sunlit weeds, the world becomes one large poetic image as French director Agnes Varda transforms one girl's story into a supposedly universal metaphor; life is an aimless wander, meeting people and passing through places until you die. And, believe it or not, the film's beautiful cinematography and Saundrine Bonnaire's quiet naturalness as the girl actually make this work...