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Sea-Deep for My Tomorrow
Here I sit and think, The conscious hand draws deep into a shifting wellAnd thrusting forth into the amber glow of mindThrough the dark robe of shivering nightInto the air of sweet censers burningOut of some antenatal dreamA vision turning and languid in the golden lightLike some Sybaritic dancer flowing forthIn a refulgent efflorescenceThat foaming and shimmering for a brief momentVanishes back into the smooth plenumOf the everyday.When we were youngIn fields we ran across to a ruined palace-wallWhile rolling clouds bloomed in the exuberant air.Do you remember the shadows that danced in the breezy dome of groves As colors played across your...
Puvis de Chavannes
Puvis de ChavannesPuvis de Chavannes, Young Girls at the Seaside, 1879Puvis de ChavannesPuvis de Chavannes, Hope, 1...
I have deigned the forthcoming month as "Symbolist Revival Month"
Georges de FeureGeorges de Feure, The Voice of Evil, 1895Symbolism was largely a reaction against Naturalism and Realism, anti-idealistic movements which attempted to capture reality in its gritty particularity, and to elevate the humble and the ordinary over the ideal. These movements invited a reaction in favour of spirituality, the imagination, and dreams; the path to Symbolism begins with that reaction. Some writers, such as Joris-Karl Huysmans, began as naturalists before moving in the direction of Symbolism; for Huysmans, this change reflected his awakening interest in religion and spirituality.In literature, the movement has its roots...
The Century of the Self
The Century of the Self asks deep questions about the roots and methods of modern consumerism, representative democracy and its implications. It also questions the modern way we see ourselves, the attitude to fashion and superficiality.The business and, increasingly, the political world uses PR to read and fulfill our desires, to make their products or speeches as pleasing as possible to us. Curtis raises the question of the intentions and roots of this fact. Where once the political process was about engaging people's rational, conscious minds, as well as facilitating their needs as a society, the documentary shows how by employing the tactics of psychoanalysis, politicians appeal to irrational, primitive impulses that have little apparent bearing on issues outside of the narrow self-interest...
