Re: I'm still here

AntiUtopia (AntiUtopia@aol.com)
Mon, 19 Jan 1998 01:52:18 -0500 (EST) 

In a message dated 1/19/98 1:37:23 AM EST, SonikSka@aol.com writes:

<< << it's a way of
  seeing that makes me think of William Blake creating a lifetime of art to
  really earn and understand the insights of youth instead of just brazenly
  extolling them as I hear in the post below. >>
 
 instead of just brazenly extolling [the insights of youth]?  what do you
 propose we do?  analyze them?  
 bethany >>

bethany, go back and reread the quoted post...it says

"really earn and understand the insights of youth."

Our present idealization of childhood comes from Romantics like Blake and
Wordsworth.    Both recognized that we lose a great deal when we lose youth,
but we gain a great deal as well--the ability to analyze and understand on
deeper levels.  And both extolled that we recover--or attempt to recover--what
we have lost from youth, without losing the more mature abilities of
analysis...

Jim