From: "Frank W. Stevenson" <t22006-AT-cc.ntnu.edu.tw> Subject: Re: milkman Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:22:45 +0800 ----- Original Message ----- From: "edwin ruda" <edwin.ruda-AT-verizon.net> To: <nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 11:16 PM Subject: Re: milkman > > "Frank W. Stevenson" wrote: > > > when one is trying to "solve" metaphysical puzzles one can only > > go back into the "mystery" of poetic language itself (rhythm, rhyme, > > phonemes and syntax for their own sake) (i.e. poem as sort of self-reflexive > > design) (perhaps derrida in "What is Poetry": poem as hedgehog. > > Frank, > > I do appreciate the extent of your argument, but not your > intent to parallel poetic mystery with metaphysical > puzzles. The play of rythm, sound, and "meanings," would > seem to defy the unity of metapysical foundations rather > than promote them it's exactly dickinson's pt. (i think) and would have been mine if i'd tried to make myself clear. (well, but i did put "solve" in quotation marks above--and also "mystery"...) D in poems like "The Brain is Wider than the Sky" seems to suggest that we could never actually "know" the relationship between (human) mind and God--or indeed the "meaning" of either of these terms--and that all we can do by way of "approaching" this is to "fall back into" the language of the poem itself....(thus perhaps laying bare its aporia-nature, impassability or non-approachability, as opposed to irreproachability): "The brain is just the weight of God, / For heft them, pound for pound / And they will differ, if they do / As syllable from sound....." Perhaps then we are always embedded within a language/textuality which suggests to us the possibility of metaphysical ideas/transcendental signifieds while already making clear that this is a (linguistic) chimera or mirage...... But--especially when we include paradox or non-standard langauge usage as a trope of language--this may seem to be the only way we could have "solved" or even attempted to solve these metaphysical puzzles--like D's last line in "I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died" (on the question of eternity, God, "life after death"): "I could not see to see"..... fws --- from list nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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