Re: I'm still here
WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Mon, 19 Jan 1998 09:27:55 -0700 (MST)
thanks jim--well said and read, will
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, AntiUtopia wrote:
> 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
>