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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
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...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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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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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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