Genealogy of Embodied Poetics (i. & ii.)

Cézanne 1860

i.

  • “The child of the poet is both the poem and the reader: For the reader to intimate with the poem –and therefore understand it in its complexity– they must infuse themselves into the poem by organizing a synchronous equation of intuitions, qualia, and concepts. As a result, if the reader manages to align their perceptions with the pedagogy of the poet, the reader learns about themselves; their understanding of the poem being an eclosion of ideas inside the nest that the poet has systematically fabricated out of metaphysics, reviving buried memories and prodding the reader’s hibernating apprehensions by nourishing them with words –not as a charlatan vomits on his naïve disciples, but how a father guides his son¹.”

ii.

  • “The grandchild of the poet is the bearing of the reader’s intercourse with the poem, that is, the reader’s apprehension of the poem’s exuding metaphysic: The poem inseminates the reader’s mind when the reader bathes in the poem’s ætheric waters –which the reader conserves as essences by the phytotelmata in their psyche.”

¹ Horace, Ars Poetica — “The Poet assumes the air of a father advising his son, rather than of a teacher instructing his pupils” (chp. 535).

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