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[novapsyche]

"The poetic process is psychologically an escapist process."
--Wallace Stevens

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[liquidgrey.livejournal.com]

hah, now there's an interesting thought.
it certainly explains a lot about the psyches of poets that I've come across (and my own, during those times I participate in the poetic)/

[melangell.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... I'm not sure whether I agree with this sentiment or not. I mean, I can understand how my own poetry can sometimes be termed escapist, and there are certainly times when my psyche actively wishes to escape whatever it perceives are its chains through poetry, but yet, there are times when my poetry can help me (and even sometimes forces me without my conscious will being imposed upon it) to face the inner deities and/or demons which are integral parts of this wandering pilgrim's soul. So, I'm torn. Tennyson too was torn when he wondered, in his "In Memoriam," whether his poems were a true expression of his grief at the loss of his friend, or whether they were in fact "a sad, mechanic exercise" in which he indulged because of its rhythmic monotony so as to numb his senses to the terrible loss he had endured. It's a very interesting question to think about!

Taariel, who really should write some more poetry soon.