The Sublime - and Other Dimensions – in Poetry
SUBLIME –
The sublime rises from the nobleness of thoughts, the magnificence of the words, or the harmonious and lively turn of the phrase; the perfect sublime arises from all three together.Wm. Addis (probably 1604-1662)
As a poet, I cannot claim to ever have written in an exalted, grand or lofty style. That is not my intention as a lyric poet. I can, however, deliver a “lively turn of the phrase.”
In fact, I have rarely read a poem that I considered to be sublime – except for a very few , and those that come immediately to mind are:
Poetry by Pablo Neruda, Dickinson’s
I Died for Beauty, Ted Hugh’s translation of Ovid’s
Venus and Adonis, and his translation of Racine’s
Phèdre.
What I aspire to as a poet, is not the sublime in my art, but the
duende, as named by Lorca, and described by him as a creative force or protean spirit, such as that of flamenco singers, in all
arts. It is said that the magical quality of a poem consists in its always being possessed by the
duende, “a thunderbolt beautiful and terrible …so that whoever beholds it is baptized with dark water.”
Irene Mitchell
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