A Way of Seeing: Perception, Imagination, and PoetrySteinerBooks, 2003 - 167 pagina's We usually think of imagination as a fanciful, whimsical faculty that has little to do with reality and truth. This beautifully written book by the Australian poet John Allison shows how ordinary imagination can be intensified to become an organ of cognition--a path of development to real knowing. Allison shows how poetry--poetic knowing and seeing--can reveal aspects of the world invisible to science. Three lucid chapters describe the path to true imagination, where attention is the key. First we must practice it, then we must become aware of the processes involved in it. Learning to experience "poise," we must come to terms with the shadow--or all that says "No" in us. The combination of attention, equanimity, and assent opens the world in a new way. Allison then examines how poets have actually developed and practiced the kind of "deep seeing" that "image work" involves. For this he draws on William Shakespeare, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Novalis, John Ruskin, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Octavio Paz. The author concludes with a sequence of his own poems that exemplify the philosophy and practice he has developed. Contents:
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... mean fantasy ( " That's just your imagination " ) ; or we might mean picturing ( " Just imagine the view from there " ) . We can also understand it as a general artistic sensitivity ( " She has a rich imagination " ) or aesthetic sense ...
... mean- ing " a weighing , " or " a putting to the test , " and I think of my writing as just this ; I have weighed ... meaning from the words , interest me . Ultimately , the nature of the poetic image fasci- nates me . This book ...
... means not being stuck ( " nailed " ) yet still being right on the spot , a being before and a stretching toward which requires a considerable inner mobility . This does not mean being all over the place , but rather achieving a dynamic ...
... means , through television , through flooding the senses with impressions .... At what cost ? Rudolf Steiner said that during the twenti- eth century , humanity would unconsciously cross the thresh- old . This is where the overlap ...
... mean , another aphorism by Novalis ( which again I shall come back to repeatedly ) is instructive : after commenting on the dual nature of self - expression he goes on to say that " the first step is introspection — exclusive ...
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Developing Imagination | 18 |
Owning the Shadow | 27 |
Getting It | 37 |
Freeing Imagination from Fancy | 47 |
Negative Capability | 58 |
Deep Seeing | 68 |
Instress and Inscape | 79 |
Another Way of Seeing Things | 107 |
Living in the World | 119 |
Connections | 127 |
Three Portals of the Imagination | 133 |
Crossings | 140 |
This | 150 |
Seeing Things II | 161 |
Heartwork | 90 |