Re: hmm....birthdays...
blah b b blah (jrovira@juno.com)
Tue, 09 Feb 1999 17:15:38 -0500 (EST)
Thank GOD Wordsworth wasn't the only English Romantic Poet :) I always
thought he was Up to Here in Feces. I much prefer Blake -- more honest,
more real, more thoughtful, plenty of ideas without idealism.
Blake also provides a good paradigm for the growth out of innocence.
While we do pass through experience (disillusionment, selfishness, etc)
we do not have to stay there. We can enter into the Old John state,
where we attain an informed innocence once again. If you want to give
Wordsworth some credibility, I would say we pass out of a "body-centered"
experience into something less "physically" passionate into something
more thoughtful, directed, and "effectively" passionate.
In short, we know what we want, value, and how to serve those ends in the
real world. We accept limitations and work within them; and when we're
really experienced, we use them to our advantage. In short, we learn how
to win and how not to defeat ourselves.
At least, we CAN know :) We can also stay Stupid our entire lives...
Jim
<<Wordsworth was (I think) the one who said that genius is childhood
rediscovered at will; while I don't wholly subscribe to this early
Victorian form of child-worship I have barely found anything to refute it
so far. Maybe this is an early-20s type of thing. Sometimes I wonder if
and
when I become a parent (hopefully many years from now) it will all
change,
but I fear, as I have found with so many things, that the anticipation
doesn't match the fulfilment.
Camille>>
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