Posted by Ron Price Poets are tempted by fantasies of totally unified organic societies, freed from the burden of differences inescapable in actual political life. But, if their work is to last, they must help to provide that luminous background, an interpretive paradigm, an idea of order, a community of ideas, against which we can project all our experience Giles Gunn, The Interpretation of Otherness: Literature, Religion and the American Imagination, Oxford UP, NY, 1979, p.174. Whether this world I am describing is entirely a question involving a personal hermeneutic. Ron Price
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on 10/7/2006, 4:57 am, in reply to "Literature & media studies"
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A PERSONAL HERMENEUTIC
-Ron Price with thanks to Painterly Abstration in Modernist American Poetry: The Contemporaneity of Modernism, Charles Altieri, Cambridge UP, NY, 1989, p.383.
If what I have seen so far of this
organically unified society is any
indication, there will be enough
differences to keep us all busy,
each with their own burden, forever.
will last, will remain alive in a future-
present, in some historically transmitted
web of meaning, some eternal network
of consciousness and experience, familiar
and yet new, fundamentally different, fresh
food for thought, new habitual modes, unified
by common thoughts, aspirations and feelings,
infinitely varied around one unchangeable pattern:
12 August 1997
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