http://natalieurq.wordpress.com Just another WordPress.com weblog Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:21:22 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://natalieurq.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/one-last-note-in-emerson/#comment-2 Peter Kerry Powers Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:21:22 +0000 http://natalieurq.wordpress.com/?p=4#comment-2 Very interesting question, Natalie. And I love the Jimi Hendrix video. Good instincts. The relationship between transcendentalism and the countercultural movement has been discussed a good deal, but you're right to notice that Emerson, and indeed several of the Transcendentalists, were almost ascetics when it came to this kind of thing. A purity of soul led to a natural "high" so to speak. Of course, other romantics were more taken with drugs. Coleridge supposedly wrote Kubla Khan on an opium high. Does it make any difference to how we judge the poem as literature? That's a very difficult and interesting question. How much do we think the poem is a record of the poet's conscious creativity; and if a poem is not in the poet's conscious control and manipulation of language, why do we give poet's so much credit. A good thing to think about when you come to T.S. Eliot. Very interesting question, Natalie. And I love the Jimi Hendrix video. Good instincts. The relationship between transcendentalism and the countercultural movement has been discussed a good deal, but you’re right to notice that Emerson, and indeed several of the Transcendentalists, were almost ascetics when it came to this kind of thing. A purity of soul led to a natural “high” so to speak. Of course, other romantics were more taken with drugs. Coleridge supposedly wrote Kubla Khan on an opium high. Does it make any difference to how we judge the poem as literature? That’s a very difficult and interesting question. How much do we think the poem is a record of the poet’s conscious creativity; and if a poem is not in the poet’s conscious control and manipulation of language, why do we give poet’s so much credit. A good thing to think about when you come to T.S. Eliot.

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