When people say though I haven't heard this phrase recently that poetry can't be written after Auschwitz, I think they are forgetting that poetry is the vehicle for our deepest responses to life and death including violent death.
When people say — though I haven't heard this phrase recently — that poetry can't be written after Auschwitz, I think they are forgetting that poetry is the vehicle for our deepest responses to life and death — including violent death.
The deep response had to come from whom? Us?
But in an era in which visual culture seems dominant, can a sermon still arouse in people a deep response, prompting days, even weeks, of discussion?
Palgrave, Keats, Shelley, Byron, and Browning also spoke of an experience that was real and immediate in my surroundings, and stirred in me a deep response.
In the sixties, her work appeared at the Corcoran Biennial and Documenta III, in Germany, where it puzzled many and struck a deep response in other artists.
For drama is a reactive art, moving constantly in time, and any convention that promotes a deep response while conserving precious time is of immeasurable value.
A pure gem, which was typical of Baroni's deep response to art, was the "Madonna and Child Resting at a Parapet," cataloged by Sotheby's experts as a picture from the "workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio".
"Russian oligarchs have spread a lot of money around Washington over the last decade, but we're not stupid here," he added, noting that Mr. Khodorkovsky's qualities helped generate "a much deeper response than when other Russian businessmen have been hounded".
There is something about singing, especially singing together, that creates a deep response in people.
