Since sounds, colors, forms, and words, etc.,all come in infinite
combinations and meanings, and reference
to representation, I don't understand how music sounds and words can
possibly differ from color and form.
mando
On Oct 14, 2009, at 11:22 AM, William Conger wrote:
The basic distinction between subject and content is overlooked
here. To say that the subject is not in the poem but outside it
seems to conflate subject and content as subject. It is more
accurate, i think, to regard subject as being inside the poem and
content outside it.
wc
Miller says:
Finally, Kivy picks up Bradley's fourth quote that "an actual
poem is the
succession of experiences - sounds, images,thoughts, emotions -
through which
we pass when we are reading as poetically as we can" -----to show
that it
contradicts his statement that "the subject is not as such inside
the poem but
outside it":
"since the whole existence of the poem, on Bradley's account,is "in
your
head", an "imaginitive experience", a distinction between what is
"in the
poem" and what is not... obviously won't wash"
