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word. Wow. It's been over a month since I've updated this thing. School and BAND have get me pretty much on a leash, but I've got a minute and I've had the craving to write in here for awhile. If you haven't seen by now, I busted my lip open in color guard yesterday and had to get 4 stitches. I'm kinda proud of my battle scar actually. lol~I feel like a gangsta (or Haitan Ark's bitch...whichever lol). ok not really...but it does look kinda hot. *smirk* Ambulance/police/hospital count so far this month: 3 Ya know...I really like English this year. Every day is a class discussion and the things we talk about just hit a key with me. Mr. Borowicz is really cool and we've got some pretty awesome people in that class. We've been discussing this article by Edgar Allan Poe and his critique on the purpose of poetry and whatnot. And because I'm a nerd and found this all very interesting, I thought I'd write about it in here. It's from "The Poetic Principle." The basic gist is that to Poe, the end of art is pleasure, not truth and pleasure should be aroused by the creation of beauty. "...a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul." It goes on to say how it's assumed that the ultimate object of all poetry is Truth, which Poe disagrees with by saying that "poe written solely for the poem's sake" which then launches into this big thing on a concept of beauty, which I thought was the best part. "An immortal instinct, deep within the spirit of man, is thus, plainly, a sense of the Beautiful [...] It is the desire of the moth for the star [...] Inspired by an ecstatic prescience of the glories beyond the grave, we struggle, by multiform combinations among the things and thoughts of Time, to attain a portion of that Loveliness [...]." Basically saying~we are instinctively drawn to beauty but can't ever reach it. "In the contemplation of Beauty we alone find it possible to attain that pleasureable elevation, or excitement, of the soul." And then he brought in all this stuff that I remember learning in Humanities! Like the 2 forms of love (dionaean- physical passion and eros- platonic love). So for like...1/2 the class period we talked about things that we thought were aestheticly beautiful. Mr. B asked us if we had any posters in our room that were pleasing to look at...not for any reasoning behind it, but were just...beautiful to look at. *sigh* I guess some of the stuff we talk about reminds me of humanities. I miss that. Well...not much else to say I guess. Just wanna kick back and have a good time this weekend! "Live by your emotions, for they are the only truths in this world." "The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw." "Beauty is an ecstacy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all." ~William Somerset Maugham the article made me think of those. lalala...don't you love feeling sexy? |