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Dickinson, Whitman, and Possibility | Document | 2006-02-12 | 2008-03-05 | 2005-12-06 |
To be God-like is to create. Creating can be facilitated by discipline. Dickinson suggests that discipline consists in protecting and cultivating one's passion in a world that tends to impose shame. The fortunate live in communities which value prophets who model discipline that facilitates the passion of creating. Those even more fortunate also have poets who help them, like Dickinson, first to know passion, then to develop their own discipline to protect their passion and help it grow. From Whitman I want to learn how a man does something radically new, that others value. I may be less likely to learn from the professors than from Whitman how to create a role, a life, an anything, that has not been seen before, and is valued. | |||||
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what no one does | Document | 2005-01-11 | 2005-01-11 | 2005-01-11 |
Further exploration of the idea that the things most worth knowing and doing do not call attention to themselves. I credit _Encounters with Chinese hermits_ with showing me this perspective. A writing prompt in Spanish class to which I responded with a title, "Mira a lo que no ve" (that may be incorrect Spanish) set this off. I also see the influence of the Ground, Relax, Awareness, Center, Energy (GRACE) part of the ITP Kata routine. Well, I see a lot of things here, including reaction to mass movements and enthusiasms. And a Wilberian (Ken Wilber) or Zen sort of outlook. | |||||
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Index of Colin's poetry | Document | 2004-10-10 | 2005-04-27 | 2004-10-10 |
Links to poetry labeled personal and poetry not so labeled. | |||||
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Scarves Wrap Necks | Document | 2004-06-15 | 2005-01-11 | 2004-06-15 |
We were to create a sonnet or 16 lines in heroic couplets. I thought it would be easy to do, so I started in Feb, though it wasn't due till May. It took me all day. | |||||
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Glints lead to vision | Document | 2004-01-30 | 2004-10-10 | 2004-01-30 |
Written after looking over the Norton Anthology of Poetry, and getting a general impression of how what people have written poetry about and how they've written about it has changed over time. It also incorporates a thought summing my experience in the summer of 2003, but which also applies to more than that. |