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Jiang's image for inspiration: poets are not merely human makers but burning messengers or channels of divine speech.
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Divine flame
Jiang's image for inspiration: poets are not merely human makers but burning messengers or channels of divine speech.
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Jiang describes poets not as ordinary humans but as the flame itself: messengers of the divine flame whose words still burn after the person is gone.
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Homer remains alive through the burning life of his words despite the absence of a recoverable picture or stable biographical knowledge of the historical man.
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"...life which burns, well, within their words. Okay? Poets are the flame itself. Poets are not human. They are the messengers of the divine..."
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"Odysseus is trying to create a reality and he's using imagery, he's using diction. No, no, he doesn't understand anything. He's just blah, blah,..."
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"...right? Europe is fighting with Russia. The Middle East is in flames. America is distracted trying to control the world to the best of..."
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"...new oil refinery. And the day before, it goes up in flames. So all of the oil refining capacity is being taken offline. What..."
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"...the livid marsh, whose eyes were ringed about with wheels of flame."
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"...the livid marsh, whose eyes were ringed about with wheels of flame."
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"...clung themselves to earth, or hold their broken bodies in the flames, so, at just that moment, I was the one man left, and..."
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"...140 who refused were burned at the stake. Some entered the flames voluntarily, not awaiting their executioners."
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"...the eyes of everyone whose intellect has not matured within the flame of love so beatrice is saying to dante yes i know this..."
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"...day. Okay. You must be to burn thyself in thy own flame. Okay. You must destroy yourself. How could though become new if they'll..."
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"...Dante uses the idea of mirrors there's a candle there's a flame mirrors that reflect the candle okay God's God is a candle we're..."
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"from God we um the his flame burns in us okay so you could be far away and you could feel as though God..."
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A source-grounded reading of Homer as civilizational engine: the Iliad trains Greeks to fight with speeches, poetry projects movies onto the world, language controls time and space, and the poet becomes the flame through...
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