{"id":593,"date":"2017-11-08T16:11:43","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T21:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/st132origins\/?p=593"},"modified":"2017-11-08T16:11:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T21:11:43","slug":"intuition-and-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/st132origins\/2017\/11\/08\/intuition-and-expression\/","title":{"rendered":"Intuition and Expression"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week Prof. Colangelo gave us a thoughtful speech about \u201cVoice and Verse: At the origins of contemporary poetry. ” He introduced us several figures related to his topic, and especially I found it interesting the doctrine of Benedetto Croce(1866-1952), who is the famous Italian philosopher. Prof. Colangelo highlighted the phrase \u201cArt is pure intuition or pure expression\u201d from the Croce\u2019s book \u201cBreviario di estetica\u201d(1913). According to prof. Colangelo, here \u201cIntuition\u201d is something you think deeply and \u201cexpression\u201d is something you push out. Those joining is underlying an art which includes poetry. Then it made me think that those items are not something unfamiliar to us but it is something we human has as an privilege in nature. The doctrine of Croce tells us that <\/span>homo nascitur poeta (human is born as a poet<\/span><\/i>) rather than <\/span>po\u00ebta nascitur (A poetry is born).<\/span><\/i> Namely every humans are born as a poet and some men can be great poets, and little poets others. But he also claims that in both differences are not qualitative but quantitative. We all have intuition but we have different quantity of expressions which cause people to be great poets or little. <\/span><\/p>\n

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What would allow people to express our intuition? According to Paul Valery, \u201cvoice\u201d would play very important role in order to revive poetry. It is necessary to create a connection of voice, develop it within time, make people listen to arouse their emotion. Although as prof. Colangelo said that it is hard to define the origin of poetry because it is always abstract in the history, \u201cvoice\u201d can lead us to get close to the origins of poetry. Because \u201cvoice\u201d was the only tool in ancient times to transmit ideas or arts including verses one person to another, from generation to generation before writing system was invented.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The video prof. Colangelo introduced in the lecture reflects how voice effects in poetry. The experimental piece <\/span>A-Ronne(1975)<\/span><\/i>, composed by Edoardo Sanguineti starts from the sound of \u201ca\u201d uttered by a man. It sounded like he is trying to get someone\u2019s attention. Following voice uttered by another person was \u201chamm\u201d. It somehow for me sounded like responding the first utterance but it seems like it gave each person different interpretations. For instance, in italian culture, this sound evokes prof. Colangelo that an adult tries making a child eat. If you are just looking at the text, those \u201ca\u201d or \u201chamm\u201d would not give us any strong impressions. However, once they are vocalized in musical tones or articulation, they obtain the meanings. It is common to all experiences such as daily speech or theatre, where changes in expression imply changes in meaning. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Let\u2019s go back to the book \u201cBreviario di estetica\u201d(1913) by Benedetto Croce. The title has the Italian word \u201cestetica\u201d which means \u201caesthetics\u201d. If we break down the word \u201cestetica\u201d, we can see that it contains the Italian word \u201cetica\u201d which means \u201cethics\u201d. Ethics is necessary to determine our morals and to hold a society together. This overlap of two words indicates that the principle of artwork creation is fundamentally lying underneath of human principles. We can not have only \u201cintuition\u201d which is related to chaos but we also need \u201cexpression\u201d which allows us to organize those chaos into order which enable people to share and connect our thoughts each other. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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