Also, my obsession with poetry is absolutely to do with the musicality of it. There is almost a mystical power in hidden rhyme, phonetic patterns, assonance, and repetition. When a skilled poet hides that music from the eye, but not the ear, I get an intense pleasure from reading it. I suppose it's all to do with harmony...if something i…
Also, my obsession with poetry is absolutely to do with the musicality of it. There is almost a mystical power in hidden rhyme, phonetic patterns, assonance, and repetition. When a skilled poet hides that music from the eye, but not the ear, I get an intense pleasure from reading it. I suppose it's all to do with harmony...if something is musical, then we automatically think of it as "true". Think about how powerful rhyme is and how it is used (misused) in advertising...when something rhymes, we automatically think it's true and we remember it.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away...what?!? Lol. It rhymes, so it must be true...
Thanks for the compliment my friend. You're making a VERY good point and one backed up by neuroscientists, psychologists, NLP practitioners, hell even evolutionary biologists will talk about things like bird song.
Rhyme and alliteration definitely FEEL like they point to some sort of deeper level within the construction of language itself. I don't care about the origin of the Corpus Hermeticum - divine revelation - no. Product of the original Greek philosophers? Medieval forgery? I don't think option three weakens its ideas one iota. It talks about language as both a path to "divine power" and a construct that must be transcended (NOT destroyed) to reach it. Substitute divine power with self actualisation and the point very much stands :)
Also, my obsession with poetry is absolutely to do with the musicality of it. There is almost a mystical power in hidden rhyme, phonetic patterns, assonance, and repetition. When a skilled poet hides that music from the eye, but not the ear, I get an intense pleasure from reading it. I suppose it's all to do with harmony...if something is musical, then we automatically think of it as "true". Think about how powerful rhyme is and how it is used (misused) in advertising...when something rhymes, we automatically think it's true and we remember it.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away...what?!? Lol. It rhymes, so it must be true...
Thanks for the compliment my friend. You're making a VERY good point and one backed up by neuroscientists, psychologists, NLP practitioners, hell even evolutionary biologists will talk about things like bird song.
Rhyme and alliteration definitely FEEL like they point to some sort of deeper level within the construction of language itself. I don't care about the origin of the Corpus Hermeticum - divine revelation - no. Product of the original Greek philosophers? Medieval forgery? I don't think option three weakens its ideas one iota. It talks about language as both a path to "divine power" and a construct that must be transcended (NOT destroyed) to reach it. Substitute divine power with self actualisation and the point very much stands :)