"Poetry comes at things through particulars, by means of images, and it doesn't deal so easily with generalities. Its mode is to cherish without limit. You could say it is idolatrous art. Some poems, the great poems, are true to their specific situations deep down, but they also have a universal quality that lets them live again and again, even in apparently unrelated circumstances." -Galway Kinnell
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
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He begins with the chase of-- the deer or the wild goat? Out of whose horns was the bow made?
Two different translations of Lessing's "Laocoon" disagree on whether Lessing meant "wild goat" or "deer" when he refered to Homer's description of the bow of Pandarus.
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Two different translations of Lessing's "Laocoon" disagree on whether Lessing meant "wild goat" or "deer" when he refered to Homer's description of the bow of Pandarus.
What a perfect ending! You are AWESOME!!!
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