Word: poetic
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...preceding the words and animating them is above all what Heaney calls “poetic emotion.” Since a poem has no will of its own, it’s a poets job to breathe life into it; this is not done by reflecting upon emotion or trying to recapture it “in tranquillity,” but by understanding the writing itself as a wholly new and active experience. Hence, ventures Heaney, writing begins with starting points like Yeats’ exaltation, Dickinson’s interior journeying or T.S. Eliot?...
...wanted to be a poet rather than propagandist. So is it surprising that he takes pleasure in “escaping the shackles of the civic”? On the other hand, in times of conflict, Heaney acknowledges that there can be “more reliability in the poetic than the actual,” making poetry a source of strength through dire straits. Indeed, Heaney invokes T.S. Eliot’s conviction that “public activity is more of a drug than this solitary toil [of writing] that often seems so pointless...
...seemed sometimes that Heaney was too quick to disparage the political in defense of the poetic, he was redeemed in the end by a president. In a 1995 speech, former President Bill Clinton claimed that some of his favorite lines were an extra chorus that Heaney wrote into his version of Sophocles’ Philoctetes...
...first, poetic sense, is an instinct particular to poets, a potential for expression, what Maritain called “an inner melody...
...irony of all of this is Kiarostami is a very apolitical director,” Pierce said. “His films are really meditations on human dilemmas, and depict the Iranian landscape in a very lyrical, poetic fashion...