"Said describes Swift
as
a Tory anarchist..."
An oxymoron! About as possible as a Tory Marxist, or a
revolutionary conservative...
(actually,now I come to think of it,Jenny Shapely, the
leader of the right-wing opposition to our alarmingly
rightist Labour govt here in NZ recently repackaged
herself as a 'radical conservative', so maybe I should
be more circumspect...)
--- [log in to unmask] wrote: > Hi Deb
>
> >doesn't poetry - written by those who align
> themselves with the left - arise
> >from the politics of complex thought?
>
> Well, those from the right can be complex also.
> Said describes Swift as
> a Tory anarchist... and I've seen some very
> simple-minded agitprop from
> the Left.
>
> Obviously the binaries of right and left don't work
> very well when
> applied to poetry. it shrugs them off. I often
> think in connection with
> this of Musil's insistence that he was an apolitical
> writer. From our
> perspective, he often looks political...but he
> thought of his apoliticism
> as a political stance which was inherently
> _literary_.
>
> Cheers
>
> Alison
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could I try to doubt it? First and foremost, the supposition that perhaps I have
been there would strike me as idle. Nothing would follow from it, nothing be
explained by it. It would not tie in with anything in my life... Philosophical
problems occur when language goes on holiday. We must not separate ideas from life,
we must not be misled by the appearances of sentences: we must investigate the
application of words in individual language-games" - Ludwig Wittgenstein
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