Mittwoch, 30. September 2009

30.11.2016 - G. Seferis2 and Banquet Sp. 1963 etc...


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30.09.2009 - Interpretation of dali48 

And I should add that today we need to listen to that human voice which we call poetry - that voice which is constantly in danger of being extinguished through lack of love - but is always reborn...

Threatened, it has always found a refuge - denied, it has always instinctively taken root again in unexpected places - It recognizes no small nor large parts of the world - its place is in the hearts of men the world over - It has the charm of escaping from the vicious circle of custom...

And for being a true Aeropagus (see poets of justice etc. - d.48), able "to judge with solemn truth life's ill-appointed lot" - to quote Shelley, who, it is said, inspired Alfred Nobel - whose grandeur of heart redeems inevitable violence...

In our gradually shrinking world (see shrinking nature, forests etc. - and exploding population, ca. 7 billions etc. - d.48) everyone is in need of all the others - We must look for man wherever we can find him. When on his way to Thebes Oedipus encountered the Sphinx - his answer to its riddle was: "Man". That simple word destroyed the monster... - Let us think of the answer of Oedipus... (G. Seferis, Banquet Sp. 1963)


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Dienstag, 29. September 2009

30.11.2016 - G. Seferis2 and melancholy resignation etc...


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29.09.2009 - Interpretation of dali48   

In one of his most significant poems Seferis describes a dream in which a marble head - too heavy for his arms, yet impossible to push aside - fell upon him at the moment of awakening - It is in this state of mind that he sings the praise of the dead, for only communication with the dead conversing on their asphodel meadows can bring to the living a hope of peace, confidence, and justice! - In Seferis's interpretation the story of the Argonauts becomes a parable halfway between myth and history - a parable of oarsmen who must fail before they reach their goal - But Seferis animates this background of melancholy resignation -  with the eloquent joy inspired in him by his country's mountainous islands - with their whitewashed houses rising in terraces above an azure sea - a harmony of colours that we find again in the Greek flag... (G. Seferis, Pres. Sp. 1963)

His wide travels provide the backdrop and colour for much of Seferis's writing - which is filled with the themes of alienation, wandering, and death... (G. Seferis, Biography 1963)

They (legends) make us realize - that throughout the ages the same attitudes toward work, suffering, joy, love, and death persisted without change... (G. Seferis, Nobel Lec. 1963)


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