when LUC were presenting that morse collection, the staff ended up not even hiding the "cheat sheets". so they might not have been cheat sheets any more though. there were lots of them scattered here and there after all.
I didn't know the word metaphysical is being such a lonely word over there. I thought it is just general, while metaphysical poetry could be regarded as technical term, hence brackets put around it in the above post.
anyway, it is not as foreign as what the explanation sounds like. for example, if you remove metaphysical elements from the japanese anime, it would feel as if it leaves something to be desired. or if someone adult still has their beloved doll from childhood, there might be some sort of metaphysical tendency at work there.
and baudelaire:
" The overriding desire of most children is to get at and see the soul of their toys, some at the end of a certain period of use, others straightaway. It is on the more or less swift invasion of this desire that depends the length of life of a toy. I do not find it in me to blame this infantile mania; it is a first metaphysical tendency. When this desire has implanted itself in the child's cerebral marrow, it fills his fingers and nails with an extraordinary agility and strength. The child twists and turns his toy, scratches it, shakes it, bumps it against the walls, throws it on the ground. From time to time he makes it re-start its mechanical motions, sometimes in the opposite direction. Its marvellous life comes to a stop. The child, like the people besieging the Tuileries, makes a supreme effort; at last he opens it up, he is the stronger. But where is the soul? This is the beginning of melancholy and gloom. "
some would have asserted it was at the throat, others would have thought it was at the eyes. later they said it was at the heart and relatively recently many guess it is at the brains. my fave is michel serres's take. he says the soul lies where the skin folds, touches on itself, like lip against lip, eyelids closed, etc. tattoo is a map of the soul. sex is about the soul.
"now determine where the soul is, by putting your elbows on your knees, by placing one part of your body on another. there is no end to it, the only limit is your own suppleness. metaphysics begins with, and conditioned by, gymnastics."
* back to the term "metaphysical poets"
they are reversible like ccp and cdg. serious/funny.
(or, rather than reversible, they might have been trying to connect things that are far apart, in the middle of the universe whose frame seemed like out of joint)
extract from wikipedia
a witticism of John Dryden, who said of John Donne:
He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where nature only should reign; and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy, when he should engage their hearts, and entertain them with the softnesses of love. In this . . . Mr. Cowley has copied him to a fault.
on a bit different note, personally I like the girl who tends to be swooned not by any stereotypical heroes but by such character as mr. spock.
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