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Poetry works by being memorized, entering the reader like a virus, creating cognitive dissonance, and remaking the reader's perception over decades.
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Poetry
Poetry works by being memorized, entering the reader like a virus, creating cognitive dissonance, and remaking the reader's perception over decades.
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Jiang says La Commedia democratizes epic poetry by using Tuscan rather than Latin so ordinary people can access it.
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Jiang says poetry works by entering memory and creating paradox or cognitive dissonance that remakes the reader over time.
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Jiang says the power of the Aeneid is that even if readers know what is happening, memorized poetry can transform them into the hero's obedient pattern.
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Jiang says Augustus provided the Aeneid's framework and Virgil transformed it into Latin poetry, leaving Virgil fearful that serving empire with a divine poetic gift might invite punishment.
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Jiang calls the Aeneid's violence almost pornographic and says Romans loved it because, in his characterization, they are bloodthirsty.
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Jiang says the shield of Achilles is not static art but a moving image, almost like a movie, and therefore an image of the universe in motion.
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Memories do not come only from personal experience; personal experience lets a person enter dialogue with the universe and absorb memories from elsewhere.
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"...to the La Commedia. It doesn't really exist anywhere else in poetry. But what makes Divine Comedy so distinct and so powerful is the..."
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"you interact with it, the more it enters you and it creates cognitive dissonance, meaning that it is disrupting the normal way you see..."
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"...the reason why is that at this time in history, epic poetry was considered high or tragic. And it was written usually in Latin...."
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"They believed in a democratic spirit to poetry. And that made them distinct from the people of their time. La Commedia is a response..."
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"...to the La Commedia. It doesn't really exist anywhere else in poetry. But what makes Divine Comedy so distinct and so powerful is the..."
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"But the more you memorize it, the more you interact with it, the more it enters you and it creates cognitive dissonance, meaning that..."
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"...then, the way to educate yourself was just to memorize the poetry. You became Aeneas himself, okay? You transform yourself from someone who was..."
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"...a framework and then virgil um uh composed it into latin poetry and actually at the end of his life virgil actually want to..."
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"is an extremely violent poetry, in fact, you can say it's almost pornographic in the violence that it depicts, all right, and the Romans..."
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"It's not a picture, it's a movie, where the images are constantly appearing over and over. All right, so this is only a part..."
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"Okay, so really important, guys, okay? He's using a lot of verbs, right? Which says that this thing is in motion, right? You can..."
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"Okay, so we said that this shield of Achilles, it's actually the soul of Achilles, okay? What his consciousness is, what is inside him...."
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A source-grounded reading of Dante as a dangerous poem: poetry enters memory like a virus, Virgil appears as guide and trap, and hell becomes the world people choose when obedience replaces love.
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Rome cannot burn Homer, because Homer already lives in memory.
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The Iliad begins as a war of wills and ends as a metaphysics of love: memory is emotion, poetry is consciousness in motion, forgiveness defeats revenge, and forced perspective-switching becomes the big bang of...
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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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A source-grounded reading of the Iliad as self-recognition: Achilles becomes a mirror for humiliation and pride, Homeric speech tries to control reality, and the ancient poet becomes prophet and teacher because truth is beautiful,...
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