OK. This is my third draft trying to tackle the philosophical poem issue…shouldn’t have started it. But I did. So, here I am facing the consequences.
I got fascinated by philosophy because 1) it promises me answers to big issues (although I never asked for details) 2) it’s a lot of “removed” thinking—I mean you are allowed to think about life, politics, justice, beauty, being, time; not so much dinner or transportation or laundry. I feel I’m going somewhere exceptional that will answer everything once I come back form it. 3) by the end, just the thinking itself empowers me—no concrete answer to big questions; and I still have to think about dinner and transportation and so on. But I feel I’m smarter. (4) by the very end, if thinking takes place in everyone, it will be really good even if we still need to routinely deal with daily life)
So, philosophy is about thinking, whether this thinking is personal or universal, whether this thinking belongs to one philosopher or to the human good. Philosophers largely get satisfied by thoughts. Writing this way makes me feel more ready to deal with the 'real' world. Writing philosophical poems is a mode of thinking for me. Reading one is more or less the same, although i have to admit, it's harder to read than to write poems that are of this nature.
What satisfies poets??
(I guess my question is still as big and hard as it was before... Sorry. I’ll stop now.)
I got fascinated by philosophy because 1) it promises me answers to big issues (although I never asked for details) 2) it’s a lot of “removed” thinking—I mean you are allowed to think about life, politics, justice, beauty, being, time; not so much dinner or transportation or laundry. I feel I’m going somewhere exceptional that will answer everything once I come back form it. 3) by the end, just the thinking itself empowers me—no concrete answer to big questions; and I still have to think about dinner and transportation and so on. But I feel I’m smarter. (4) by the very end, if thinking takes place in everyone, it will be really good even if we still need to routinely deal with daily life)
So, philosophy is about thinking, whether this thinking is personal or universal, whether this thinking belongs to one philosopher or to the human good. Philosophers largely get satisfied by thoughts. Writing this way makes me feel more ready to deal with the 'real' world. Writing philosophical poems is a mode of thinking for me. Reading one is more or less the same, although i have to admit, it's harder to read than to write poems that are of this nature.
What satisfies poets??
(I guess my question is still as big and hard as it was before... Sorry. I’ll stop now.)
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