/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.4053793]

"It is not a permanent necessity that poets should be interested in philosophy, or in any other subject. We can only say that it appears likely that poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult. Our civilization comprehends great variety and complexity, and this variety and complexity, playing upon a refined sensibility, must produce various and complex results. The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into his meaning."

Would you agree or disagree with this statement? T.S. Eliot wrote it in his essay "The Metaphysical Poets", referring to the Metaphysicals of the 17th century, but I think it continues to explain trends in literature through Eliot's own "High-Modernism", and even into the territory of highly allusive DFW style Post-Modernism.

[Anonymous No.4055178]

Bump for the night crowd