Re: beauty
Posted by c owen on January 07, 2001 at 19:32:15:
In Reply to: Re: beauty posted by M on October 16, 1999 at 21:02:56:
: the scene-act ratio. container and thing contained. if the creature was contained in a beautiful vessel, did it necessarily assume the shape and constitution of the vessel. or does it simply experience the divine until the maker of the vessel spills it on the ground?
jeffers, I believe, was always playing with dual definitions- beauty, like tragedy, presented two forms, one humanized and therefore always,necessarily flawed and one inhuman, and therefore eternal and perfect. beauty is only the earth's face and tragedy the human's - yet with eternal recurrence, there is no real tragedy. "The coast crying out for tragedy like all beautiful places" - seems that Jeffers here is mocking our use of nature for landscape, as backdrop - elevating our dramas out of hubris, mired in our pathetic fallacies.
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