08-11-2023, 02:36 PM
Shelley wrote poems addressing the west wind. It’s charming. Very much in tune with the prevailing zeitgeist
We don’t do that today anymore, except ironically or in allusion
That’s because we see it as an outdated rhetorical device. Why? Because it’s rhetorical. And rhetoric is outdated. Why is rhetoric outdated? Because so much of it was done over the years that it’s become stale. Cliched.
So it is with the anthropomorphising. Not in a metaphor, which is impossible to avoid, but in a salutation, address, and the like.
Tastes are cyclical. Today, people like the rude rimes of Chaucer. It’s like eating dry bread after a heavy diet of restaurant quality French food. People always go back to what the last few generations dismissed.
No one thinks Shelley should be read anymore.
People read Emily Dickinson, even though she’s intolerable.
Wankers profess to like Bob Dylan.
No American has read Iqbal and his stirring call to Jihad, to topple the evil forces of what is ultimately science and progress
We don’t do that today anymore, except ironically or in allusion
That’s because we see it as an outdated rhetorical device. Why? Because it’s rhetorical. And rhetoric is outdated. Why is rhetoric outdated? Because so much of it was done over the years that it’s become stale. Cliched.
So it is with the anthropomorphising. Not in a metaphor, which is impossible to avoid, but in a salutation, address, and the like.
Tastes are cyclical. Today, people like the rude rimes of Chaucer. It’s like eating dry bread after a heavy diet of restaurant quality French food. People always go back to what the last few generations dismissed.
No one thinks Shelley should be read anymore.
People read Emily Dickinson, even though she’s intolerable.
Wankers profess to like Bob Dylan.
No American has read Iqbal and his stirring call to Jihad, to topple the evil forces of what is ultimately science and progress