Is the poem necessary? Who knows. Maybe to the person writing it, I hope. By the nature of its apparent non-necessity, its goals are allowed to be different than anything else in life. That’s the real win. It can function broadly and freely. It can navigate the human mind without sacrificing itself to ideology or cause.
Ahh but isn’t it poets’ capacity to bring meaning that is so dangerous: why they were banned from Plato’s republic and Shelley suggested they are the ‘unacknowledged legislators of the world’? Because they move us to act. I touch on this here: https://starringthedark.substack.com/p/introducing-starring-the-dark
Fucking love this
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Thank you!
Excellent ☀️
Love this. Thank you.
This is so good! I wrote about it too, and its such an interesting thing to meditate on. I loved reading your thoughts, thank you for sharing them ❤️
Ahh but isn’t it poets’ capacity to bring meaning that is so dangerous: why they were banned from Plato’s republic and Shelley suggested they are the ‘unacknowledged legislators of the world’? Because they move us to act. I touch on this here: https://starringthedark.substack.com/p/introducing-starring-the-dark