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This was really good! I'm a visual person, I like to "watch" things. Listening to this, in my mind, felt like I was watching something. I could visually see what Dana was saying.

Thank you from Japan.

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This is a brilliant analysis.

I have no words to express what I’m feeling right now ♥️🦋

Light and Truth. Thank you, Dana.

Gioia said that poetry "explores the paradox of being alive, knowing [a dangling modifier, Dana!] that this world and this life is our true home and yet not feeling entirely and yet not feeling entirely at one with the world." Could it be that we don't feel entirely at one with the world because it is not our true home? Or, as Wordsworth wrote, "Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: / The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, / Hath had elsewhere its setting, / And cometh from afar: / Not in entire forgetfulness, / And not in utter nakedness, / But trailing clouds of glory do we come / From God, who is our home:"

So if I may say that, I think you have a very calming and wonderful voice

I have spent the last decade thinking about this. Yet I have not come even remotely close to expressing this with such breadth and richness. Thank you for sharing this.

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Thank you for your work!

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How inspiring!!

Richard Rorty tries to make a case that poetry is the most important form of philosophical discourse. I tried to read Heidgger's 'What is called Thinking' and some of his remarks on Georg Trakl, (a poet, of course), but I gave up rather quickly both times. Heidegger had much of value to say, but what fascinates me is that all poetry entails some philosophy, and much philosophical thought is a matter of poetic inspiration. Whereas Plato wished to banish artists and poets from the Republic, isn't the image of The Cave an especially graphic symbol, metaphor or poetic image?

Poetry is the pearl of language. It is the best part of a language to communicate feelings, inspirations, and spirituality!!

poetry is nothing but lyrical masturbation...if a society gets advanced enough..some intelligent ppl will then use a language to play around with. they could say something straight up but choose to make it artistic.

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This is a magnificent introduction to Stevens. Thank you for this! You managed to say so much in a relatively short space. You’re sending me back to the poetry, as the intention is.

We need a library tour!

Great video series, particularly love the last few minutes of this entry.

Need a library tour

This channel is such a gem to find. Subscribed with notifications!

Brabo

Truer words were never spoken.

What lovely thoughts!

Dang, I just thought it meant that no matter how much you want things to stay the same, change is inevitable.

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Professor Gioia your videos on You Tube introduced me to poetry. My perception of the world around me has since changed for the better. Like the advertisement for Claritin. There is clear, and Claritin clear. I thought my view of my surroundings was full and complete, but poetry has expanded my mind in such a way that the world richer, more vibrant, and more beautiful. Thank you.

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That was interesting, thank you!

Thankyou very much for your videos. I am grateful.

It is no wonder that Baudelaire appreciated Wagner's music as much as Proust later did.

Bravo, Mr. Gioia!

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Reminds me of someone

What a great lecture.

Make note of what 2nd line of 2nd stanza implies...

Why? Why? Why didn’t you explain what the meaning of Wallace Steven’s poem was about?

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Oh my God! This gentleman explains poetry so,so well! Now I will arise and go poetry with greater joy! He has pulled me off the grey pavement of battling poetry.Sometimes,let's know how to contact these great teachers on emails,etc; if only to appreciate them.

seriously underrated, such an important message so eloquently stated

Ohhh the descriptions towards the end on what poetry is was profound. Perfectly put!!! Poetry or art in general’s effect has always seemed impossible to describe, one becomes speechless, because simply put, the body is much taken out of this world into another when under the influence of poetry, some supernatural state, of heightened awareness & great dreaming & a strange way of sudden understanding things that are usually complex, poetry as a whole is another language, of angels, you might say. The native language of the soul we all are fluent in, & never realize until we stumble across a verse or book of poetry that seems to weave together & put to words some strange senses that somehow we have known all along. I love your videos a bunch, they are a pleasure to watch & learn.♥️

Came across his name in various lovecraft stories....