![]() It is not airy idealism but unadulterated realism to hold that no matter what exists, its perception, recognition, and description are very much a function of the mind that perceives, recognizes, and describes. Francis Berry analyzed and illustrated the thesis that a “poem’s significance also depends on the kind of voice conveying the information.” In order to fully appreciate the import of the poet’s vision, we must refine our notion of reality.Ĭontrary to common sense, reality is not so much substantiality as a framework for our feelings and actions. The poet’s vision is logophonic: its instruments are words and sounds. The first is to say that poetry transports us to a new dimension of reality. Now there are at least two ways of interpreting this transformation of words and sounds into palpable truths. It conjures up a new world of reality, not of material things, but of images and ideas that compete with the very stuff of reality. It makes us regard the world such as we had not done before. It brings us to levels of awareness that would otherwise have been beyond our being. Not that it was always praise and admiration: If Shelly saw “the mountains kiss high Heaven”, Andrew Marvell moaned that mountains do “the Earth deform and Heaven fright.” Poetic phrasing more than a garland of words pleasing to the ears. The setting sun and the crescent moon, the cascade, the meadow and the gentle brook, every scene and action on nature’s grand arena has been captured and reflected upon by this poet or that. Whether it be flowers in bloom, birds chirping, or bare trees in wintry whiteness, there is, in the words of a poet again, “more than meets the eye” in every facet of nature. ![]() We not only rejoice at the rainbow with greater joy, but recognize how such joy at a beauteous wonder of nature can add meaning to life’s experience. We have all seen rainbows, but hear how Wordsworth exclaims: Through their rhythmic lines we begin to see aspects of the world that escape our ordinary cognition. ![]() Poets elevate us to higher modes of perception. Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothingĪt one time poets played important roles in many cultures and civilizations. The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen The poet’s eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,ĭoth glance from heaven to earth and from earth to heaven As Shakespeare’s Theseus said perceptively, All of us share these gifts, but they are most developed among poets and artists. ![]() If imagination is the brain’s ability to bring forth for our mental perception objects and events that are not in our immediate vicinity, creativity conjures up entities that are endowed with charm and beauty, even meaning and substance which may not even be there in the tangible world. Among the many capacities of the human brain are imagination and creativity. ![]()
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