Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 18:15:22 +0100
From: artefact-AT-t-online.de (Michael Eldred)
Subject: Re: Riders on the Storm


Cologne 11-Jan-2002

Allen Scult schrieb Thu, 10 Jan 2002 20:37:33 -0600:

> >From: Michael Pennamacoor <pennamacoor-AT-enterprise.net>
> >
> >Michael E riding the storm recently:
> >
> > >Riders on the storm,
> > >Unto this house we're born,
> > >Into this world we're thrown.
> > >
> > >        -- The Doors
> >
> >And the poet, doors wide open, lets himself be a storm, the I of the storm
> >:-), thus:
> >
> >"I circle ... the ancient tower, and I circle for thousands of years; and I
> >do not yet
> >know: am I a falcon, a storm, or a mighty song." [Rilke, The Book of Hours]
> >
>
> But there's an important difference here, at least one that moves me as I
> listen to the two verses.  The Doors sing of being thrown into the world,
> riders on the storm.  Rilke,as poet, IS the storm, This is the presumptive
> capacity of the poet to "bring into existence that which heretoforew did not
> exist."  Whitman in Leaves of Grass announces the possibility for American
> (English):
>
> " I celebrate myself,
> And what I assume you shall assume,
> For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you."
>
> William Carlos williams decides to be a city and that City is Paterson (
> where I grew up).
> The poet creates by taking on the wordly personna of something already there
> and then gives it to us and we have it too. . .as if for the first time. . .
> a storm, a falcon, a city. . . a mighty song, THERE (da).
>
> The Doors are good, but not that good.  Riding the storm ( or whateverf else
> comes along), making interesting observations along the way. . .Truckin'. .
> .What a long strange trip it's been. . . gratefully dead
>
> In a curmudgeonly mood,

Aw, don't be like that, Allen.

I thought, there are some remarkable resonances in these Doors lines, probably a
trickle-down effect from the poet's or thinker's word.

Just think on: "Unto this house we're born."

Michael
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