In an even lighter and sweeter vein,
if one is working at Duncan's Doughnuts....new holes. ;->

P.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chokh Raj" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: TS Eliot: The Metaphysical Poets


> in a lighter vein
>
> "[T]he ordinary [reader's] experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary.
> [He/she might] fall in love, or [read] Spinoza, and these two experiences
> [for them] have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the
typewriter or the smell of cooking; in the mind of [an informed reader],
these experiences are always forming new wholes."
>
> Cheers,
> CR
>
> --- On Tue, 5/4/10, Nancy Gish <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Well, one might,
> > but that is not how Eliot defines it.
> > N
> >
> > >>> Chokh Raj <[log in to unmask]> 05/04/10
> > 9:39 AM >>>
> > One might say this of the "telescoping of images and
> > multiplied associations", I suppose.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > CR
> >
> > --- On Tue, 5/4/10, Peter Montgomery
> > <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > > Er... the objective
> > > correlative?
> > > P.
> >
> > > > > >>> Chokh Raj 05/03/10 11:54 AM
> > >
> > > > > Apropos the Metaphysical poets, of their
> > poetic
> > > virtues,
> > > Eliot takes
> > > > > note of, in particular, a certain
> > > "telescoping of images and
> > > > > multiplied associations", and
> > > a "heterogeneity of material
> > > compelled
> > > > > into
> > > unity by the operation of the poet's
> > > mind" -- a "put[ting]
> > > the
> > > > > material together again in a new
> > unity".
> > > >
> > > > > In fine,
> > > > > "When
> > > a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its
> > > work, it is
> > > constantly amalgamating disparate
> > > experience; the ordinary
> > > man's
> > > > > experience is chaotic, irregular,
> > fragmentary.
> > > The
> > > latter falls in
> > > > > love, or reads Spinoza, and these two
> > > experiences have nothing to do
> > > > > with each other, or with
> > > the noise of the typewriter or the smell of
> > > > > cooking;
> > > in the mind of the poet these experiences
> > > are always forming
> > >
> > > > > new wholes. " -- T.S. Eliot,
> > > 'The Metaphysical
> > > Poets'
> > >
> > >
> > http://personal.centenary.edu/~dhavird/TSEMetaPoets.html
> >
> > > > > refreshing the memory --
> > >
> > > > > CR
>
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