dear keith,
you shift the meaning from what mediators do to what communication is commonly believed to accomplish. i wonder what a poet mediates. we all read texts differently unless we operate in a well-defined discourse such as mathematics, science, or a practical discourse such as plumbing.
whatever provokes a poet to write, whatever emotions drive that process for him or her, connoisseurs, cultural critics, or ordinary readers, especially after some time elapsed are not likely to have the same even similar feelings as what motivated the poet. the idea that the written poem mediates between the emotions of the author and those of the reader calls for an observer who has access to both, which is his or her own take on the poem.
klaus
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Dear Klaus,
Yes, mediators mediate, but mediation, as a larger concept and process, offers the ground for an understanding of the transformations that can take place in the mediation. The Poet mediates an emotion when expressing its correlative in language. The image in the poem is designed to facilitate a reader's experiencing the emotion as an aesthetic event ( theirs, but at a distance). This is not a translation or a transformation, it is a mediation. Something new is made available in the mediation.
Cheers
Keith
> On 10 Jan 2014, at 1:48 pm, "Klaus Krippendorff" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> mediation implies finding a balance between conflicting parties. that is what mediators do. their aim is to make everyone happy, not to innovate, lead, propose something previously unimaginable.
> klaus
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