tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post7707883788429838146..comments2024-03-27T11:02:20.107-07:00Comments on the prowling Bee: The Skies can't keep their secret!Susan Kornfeldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05384011972647144453noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-2924452417154282702023-01-12T18:30:20.542-08:002023-01-12T18:30:20.542-08:00ED takes pride in old-fashioned proclivities and c...ED takes pride in old-fashioned proclivities and chides God for his new-fashioned world. She would rather not know the details of how “the Sapphire Fellows”, blue skies, cause spring. “It's finer - not to know”. <br /><br />Did she feel scientific knowing would interfere with poetic knowing? Would she deny climate-change today? Or simply ignore it?<br />Larry Bnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-26192161251177631062020-06-29T06:56:42.024-07:002020-06-29T06:56:42.024-07:00If summer were an axiom - if truth, by being reve...If summer were an axiom - if truth, by being revealed, became crystallized and static, then when conditions changed (winter comes w snow) it would have to be explained by sorcery - supernatural intervention. If your thinking is rooted in nature (and it’s transitori-ness) do you want to let in the super-natural? Pphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01023162636086533197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-61797717400876866902019-10-08T16:52:19.922-07:002019-10-08T16:52:19.922-07:00Ah -- loved the Dickinson verse and your explicati...Ah -- loved the Dickinson verse and your explication of it Susan!<br />"It's finer --not to know--" How compactly she states her complex embrace of mystery that delights in the thickening of plots and is watchful for Spoilers. I imagine God holding a bouquet of omniscience behind his back like a suitor intending to surprise this perverse poetess and instead being surprised by her (again). How wonderfully haughty she sounds, how deliciously disinterested as she spins on her heel and walks away exercising her right not to know. I imagine the bouquet wilted a little-- and God chuckled :)pavihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02864544446100751160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-5655041719489753102016-09-11T07:29:24.315-07:002016-09-11T07:29:24.315-07:00That is very interesting -- thank you so much! I w...That is very interesting -- thank you so much! I will look up the OOTS recording. I've only heard the Copland pieces once and that was long ago. What a lovely thing to be -- their writer (one I hope not too reticent).Susan Kornfeldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05384011972647144453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-76466423388756783442016-09-10T10:05:14.398-07:002016-09-10T10:05:14.398-07:00In a nutshell (and this is a massive over-simplifi...In a nutshell (and this is a massive over-simplification), Fowles is discussing, firstly, why humanity (feels it) needs (to believe in) gods; and then goes on to discuss the unknowable – especially death: both how we cannot know what happens after it, and how, once dead, we cannot know what came before it: that is, that we existed.<br /><br />‘The Aristos’ is all in note form; and one in this section (entitled ‘The Godgame’) cryptically just reads: “Emily Dickinson: ‘If summer were an axiom, what sorcery had snow.’” – and I wanted to know why he had included it there.<br /><br />Google led me to your blog, and your lucid explanation of how you understood the poem – which has always slightly puzzled me in its switch from everyday language to almost-mysticism (something she does quite often (I am currently studying Copland’s setting of eight of her poems…)) – and I suddenly ‘got it’!<br /><br />You made it seem so obvious… – but, of course, poetry is defined by its complexities, many-meaning words, and ability to be relevant/interpreted in different ways: so we may both be wrong! But I have a feeling that you got it right… – or at least helped me see what I hadn’t before. So, thank you, again!<br /><br />PS: I hope this has helped… – although I have a feeling reading Fowles’ book may contextualise things immensely?!<br /><br />PPS: When I am not stuck typing into my phone, I shall come back for your interpretations of the verses Copland set so marvellously. (There is a wonderful recording by Orchestra of the Swan – I may be biased, as I am their Writer-in-Reticence… – with the miracle that is April Fredrick: a soprano from Wisconsin, who has also studied Dickinson.)The Bard of Tysoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09091547499313505033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-20283556231554348052016-09-10T09:01:59.036-07:002016-09-10T09:01:59.036-07:00Now that is a comment that begs amplification! (Pa...Now that is a comment that begs amplification! (Particularly since I have never read The Aristos)Susan Kornfeldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05384011972647144453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-33286152114335940352016-09-10T06:40:38.389-07:002016-09-10T06:40:38.389-07:00Having just encountered this poem, rereading John ...Having just encountered this poem, rereading John Fowles’ ‘The Aristos’ (for the umpteenth time), your commentary has helped clarify my thoughts mightily!The Bard of Tysoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09091547499313505033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-5355280309693340792016-08-21T05:32:05.346-07:002016-08-21T05:32:05.346-07:00Enjoyed your interpretation here and the project g...Enjoyed your interpretation here and the project generally, thank you.SoundFlyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13102668699127289987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-79444283171682776372016-02-03T09:51:52.163-08:002016-02-03T09:51:52.163-08:00I enjoyed your commentary!
I enjoyed your commentary!<br />Jennifer Wolfe`http://www.womenwritingjacksonville.comnoreply@blogger.com