The essay published here—Eli Siegel’s “Impediment in Poetry”—is great in the history of literary criticism. It is also about the personal life of everyone, because Eli Siegel is the critic who showed this tremendous thing: every good poem, whatever its subject—whether it’s about a rose, a war, a mountain, a kiss—does in its technique what we need to do in our lives. “Poetry,” he wrote, “...is the oneness of the permanent opposites in reality as seen by an individual.” And those same opposites are ours too: our lives are, every day, rest and motion, junction and separation, for and against, known and unknown, logic and feeling. The opposites so often fight in us, whirl about, seem divided and at odds. We long to make them one—which is what poetry does. -- Ellen Reiss, Aesthetic Realism Chairman of Education To read more: aestheticrealism.net/tro/tro1871.html
Posted on: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 00:03:10 +0000
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