Hi Douglas - Well, I'd get all Heraclitan here and claim that you
can't return to any poem, since it will be different next time! But
I've argued this in depth before, in my poem _On Lyric_.
I'm not sure how you distinguish between different kinds of feeling.
It sounds like a kind of hierarchy of authenticity to me (art produces
real feeling, sport produces the illusion of producing feeling). If
meaning is what distinguishes sport from art, how is Swan Lake more
(or less) meaningful than a game of cricket? (This is a real question,
not a rhetorical gesture) - I have to say that the more I think about
it, the less clear it seems to me -
Cheers
A
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:53 AM, Douglas Barbour
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> Okay, that I get. And, yes, although I do get caught up, usually alone at
> home in front of the TV set, with watching some sport, I would agree that
> it's a very different emotion, sense of meditation, than I have in front of
> a great, or even just good, work of art, or reading a superb poem. To which
> I can return, as you can't to those best moments of a sporting event
> (although I am then reminded of performance arts, how they are of the
> moment, too).
>
> (But I still watch some sports...<g>)
>
> Doug
>
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