Jiang's account of poetry as a partly subconscious prophetic medium rather than purely controlled authorial intention.
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channeling the divine
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...okay? A lot of poetry is subconscious because you are channeling the divine. Does that make sense? So we can objectively, as critics, as..."
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"...okay? A lot of poetry is subconscious because you are channeling the divine. Does that make sense? So we can objectively, as critics, as..."
"It's also possible that he really didn't know about the Cathars because they were suppressed, okay? We know about the Cathars because of our..."
"...this out okay all right so remember the poets are channeling the divine fire the holy fire okay and the poetry is meant to..."
"...anywhere but if you're like okay all he's doing is channeling the divine fire well that explains a lot more okay okay does that..."
"...of media was only afterwards that it was proven to be divine right right so i'm wondering if he's kind of worried too like..."
"...a great idea through their imagination, through their intuition, by channeling the divine, okay? That's every single scientist, including Einstein, Newton. Yes? Wait, wait,..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
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