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Dear Andy, Hooray, a Peter Gabriel fan! Did you like the scene in the Wim Wenders film 'Until the End of The World' where the radios and clocks have stopped and the plane is coasting silently above the Australian desert and a 'Blood of Eden' (from 'Us') starts playing/ That has got to be one of the most exquisite songs and also film moments ever. Cheers, Cassie On Fri, 14 Jul 2000 14:48:36 +0100, [log in to unmask] wrote: > Hi Geraldine, > > >a complex of social/ cultural/ political/ economic factors < > > I've always thought, somehow, that epic narrative is now served > by film, the lyric cry by popular music, surrealism by cartoons or > comedy . . . in a way that has made the relevent poetries somewhat > redundant over the last century. Look at the popularity of Star > Wars (epic narrative plus myth), more recently Gladiator (historical > epic). The same needs are being served by different media to > some extent. And there's so much of it out there. > > Personally, I can say that singer-songwriters have had more > influence on me over the years than poetry -- or at least an equal > influence. If it hadn't been for Peter Gabriel I'd never have become > a writer . . . . . strange but true. > > Comparatively speaking, poets of the 19th c. were working in > tremendous isolation, both socially and nationally. Did either > Wordsworth or Tennyson or Dickinson hear a note of Beethoven? > It could be argued that poets of that century and before were > 'tribal', to that extent. Newsreel and recorded music have opened > things up . . . archeology has opened up the global past . . . . > psychology the endless internal glance . . . . and then came The > Waste Land. A heap of broken images. > > The world is too much with us :-) > > > Andy > > > _______________________________________________________ Say Bye to Slow Internet! http://www.home.com/xinbox/signup.html %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%