Wednesday March 28

THE REDEMPTIVE POWER OF ART:

~Daedalus and Icarus pg 254
~'unknown arts'
~redeem us from the horror

BUDDHA'S 3 THINGS TO DEAL WITH THROUGH ART:

1) sickness
2) death
3) old age

ZEUS:

~an artist
~transforms the world into art
~imagination has the power to hide us from evil, and proves it though his promiscuity

SHAKESPEARE:

~just as dark and twisty as Ovid
~influenced by Ovid ex- Prospero has stolen his lines
~Titus Andronicus
JAMES JOYCE:

~last book is 'Finnegan's Wake' is a version of Ovid- everyone metamorphoses
~nothing else came close to it
~it's mesmerizing
~ends where it begins
~"Is there any one who understands me?" ~ FW
~'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'
~main character named Steven Daedalus
~adds detail that makes it real
~all the maidens ask to be transformed by their fathers at the end
~the last line stops in the middle of the sentence and picks up at the very beginning
~Daedalus built himself wings to fly away from Crete

"You don't have to understand it, you just have to be there to see it" ~ Dr. Sexson

WEAVING: a metaphor for art

~Penelope
~Arachne
~Philomela

Ovid was the the most cinematic of all writers

"Imagination is keeping all your options open" ~ Dr. Sexson

BIRDS:

~Philomela:
~Procne:

~Tereus: TRAGEDY:

~ wasted youth

~ extreme pessimism

~ the worst thing that can possibly happen