Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Florizel, Polixenes's teenage son and suitor of Perdita, Richard Backus is an attractive chap. But he is not at ease with classical poetic diction. One is constantly aware of listening to an actor mouthing lines rather than a person voicing thoughts...
...only superficially about pedagogy, however. It follows two Ohio high school teachers--George Groch, a sullen, conceited would-be poet, and his flighty and impressionable fiancee, Jessie Deagle--through six turbulent weeks here. They are both enrolled in an English class, Groch because he wants to come into full poetic bloom and Deagle because she wants to be near Groch. But their teacher, a scholarly and enormously self-centered young dandy named Alfred Honore Pallantine, comes between them. Jessie, taken with his polish and crudition, falls in love with him, ditches Groch and spends most of her time chasing Pallantine...
...which Percy dubs, for personal reasons, the "Delta Factor") is the object of "a mild twenty-year obsession" on Percy's part. It separates man from beast; it gives him a unique tool for understanding his condition. Percy associates it with another obsession of his, the sort of inexplicable, poetic joy that everyone experiences from time to time--this he calls the "Helen Keller phenomenon," because it is the way Helen Keller felt when, later than most people, she first connected the word water with the actual item. But he also blames language for twentieth-century man's estrangement from...
...most celebrated opponent of the Park government is the popular poet Kim Chi Ha, 34. Kim has persistently used poetic satire to ridicule the government, earning several terms in prison for his efforts. Sentenced to death last year, Kim was released in February. Last month he was jailed again on charges of having violated South Korea's sweeping anti-Communist law. The government, meanwhile, has begun international distribution of a pamphlet called The Case Against Kim Chi Ha, an effort to prove the highly dubious contention that Kim is a fervent Communist. Kim's friends fear that...
Kundera actively hates poetry as much as he hates the crimes perpetrated under the banner of poetic political slogans. But he is certainly wrong when he equates the surrealistic slogans of the May 1968 revolt in Paris ("L'imagination au pouvoir." "La poesie est dans la rue!" "Soyez realistes demandez l'impossible!") with the Stalinist slogans Jaromil is editing for the May Day parade in Prague some twenty years before. Nothings was more foreign to the spontaneity and libertarian spirit of the May 1968 revolt than the oppressive regimentation of the Stalinist era in Czechoslovakia; the Parisian May had probably...