Re: kafka and rilke

jim,

i'll let the author of the quoted text defend himself.

and, jim, i was flattered by your (unearned)
distinction as being a resident 20th century lit
historian.

my reading is very circumscribed. it just happens that
the four or five authors i know something about all
wrote in that century, and one of them is jds.

kim

--- James Rovira <jrovira@drew.edu> wrote:
> Yeah, sounds great and less filling, to pull a
> Daniel on you :). It's
> an essentially sentimental, meaningless definition
> of poetry. "That
> which happens," in the experiential terms below,
> could happen just as
> well from a speech, a novel, a sermon, a film, a
> painting, a sculpture,
> music -- it's simply a nice (almost poetic :) )
> description of an
> aesthetic experience, which could just as well arise
> from any medium,
> not just poetry.
>
> Heck, I experienced this bodysurfing when I was 16.
> And in some sexual
> experiences.
>
> Of course, a romantic definition of poetry would
> call anything that
> provoked this kind of an aesthetic experience
> poetry, but that would
> also be a useless definition of poetry. If you can
> call everything
> poetry, there's no sense calling anything poetry.
>
> Jim
>
> Kim Johnson wrote:
> > i'm flattered to think my little post has caused
> the
> > creation of a state university!
> >
> > i'm enjoying the thread.
> >
> > and, so far, this is what i'm most grateful for:
> >
> >
> >
> >>the poem is that which
> >>happens, it is the event, loud
> >>or silent, seen or heard, sung or spoken, dreamt
> or
> >>burnt in the heart.
> >
> >
> >
> > --kim
>
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Received on Mon Jun 30 14:33:16 2003