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I wonder what T.S.Eliot would say about a robot winning a prize named after him? "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is n
by zappo2938 11y ago
I wonder what T.S.Eliot would say about a robot winning a prize named after him?
"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things."[1] -- T.S. Eliot from 'Tradition and the Infividual Talent'
In this essay, Eliot uses the metaphor of chemistry to describe the poetic process. However, I think using the metaphor of the chemical process inside the ribosome is a better analogy. The poet's mind takes a finite amount of emotions and feelings as there are a finite amount of condons which can be processed through a ribosome in an infinite number of ways to create all sorts of proteins [2] as the poet can move the reader to experience new feelings.
Whereas a computer can test if a new protein will bind to a cell or act in a certain way, the computer doesn't have the ability to quantify if a reader is experiencing a new feeling or epiphany. Or perhaps, a person can be placed in a MRI machine so the computer can have a feed back loop.
A good example of the artistic process that T.S.Eliot described is how George Lucas, who has said in interviews that T.S.Eliot has influenced his work, stitched together several scenes from dog fights in WWII movies [3] using physical images of things that are familiar to the audience like planes and words, "I got him," to create a new feeling for people to experience. Lucas and Eliot also had the same goal of using art to affect people into a spiritual experience.
Edit: I don't know how to English.
[1] http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/eliot/tradition.htm http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/eliot/traditi...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfYf_rPWUdY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfYf_rPWUdY
[3] http://i.imgur.com/1MjQ4My.gifv http://i.imgur.com/1MjQ4My.gifv