Dichten

A blog of Poetry: to say, to speak, the verb for to make poetry, dichten. Poetry is the condition for the possibility of philosophy, the condition that fulfills its own condition, a sort of causa sui that doesn't leap but grounds in its disdain for the question of ground. This blog hates itself in its metaphysics, but achieves the height of nothing...

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"In addition to the choice of words, positioning of words, and the sequencing of words, it is above all the entire overall resonance of the poetic telling that "expresses" the so-called meaning. Yet this overall resonance of the telling is not simply the result of the positioning of words and arranging of lines, but rather the reverse: the overall resonance of the telling is the initial, creative resonance that first intimates the language; it is the origin not only for the arranging and positioning of the words, but also for the choice of words, an origin that in its resonance constantly anticipates the use of words. This overall resonance of the telling, however, is from the outset determined by the fundamental attunement of the poetry, which takes form within the inner outline of the whole. The fundamental attunement for its part grows out of the particular metaphysical locale of the poetry in question." Martin Heidegger, Hoelderlin's hymns "Germania" and "The Rhine", translated by William McNeill, not yet published.

Saturday, August 28, 2004

Lyrics

I use to be able to write lyrics but I've lost my ability to ryhme and everything wants to be expressed in sentences to get the point across in the best, simplest, and easiest way possible. Even my poetry is very clear and exoteric. Its the desire to be as eloquent as possible which requires accuracy and precision. But here I'm going to try to write lyrics basically by taking experiences and the beckonings of the Gods and shortening the sentences. Lets see if this works:

You think you've got me
under your control
But I feel good about
doing what you want.
You feel you owe me.
The more I give to you
The more you want to repay me.
You'll become generous,
forgiving, submissive, good.

Learn to express yourself
to restrain your truculence
To manipulate without revealing
To gain trust the quickest
And keep it the longest.

To appear submissive is
to passively manipulate,
projecting your being
in the way you act
by setting an example,
that you'll soon mimic
without realizing
you're losing yourself to me.

If you could think
If you read
If you had gone to school
You would have realized
the intricacies of the game,
You'd be able to realize
the truths I'm telling you.
You would just know.

End Lyrics: they were ok, very revealing, but they weren't that strong, my prose is much better. I'd like to keep the last word there although I don't believe we can know anything other than that we can't know that we don't know or know. We can only think we know while in fact we may be mistaken: I can't even know that I can't know anything because I may be mistaken, although I cannot be mistaken about this: I know that I can't know that I know or don't know. So we "really" can't know anything, but to assimilate to the climate that uses "know" I feel it expresses what I would want it to express that nothing else could in getting my point across in so few words.

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