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Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry
At some point, all of us must have asked ourselves: Does poetry still have a place in the contemporary democratic society? Other questions arise from here of course: Does poetry play different roles in the different democracies? What is the difference between the role poetry plays in the American society and the role it plays in the European one? And from here on it may start the debate. undifferentiation, Robert Pinsky analysis Alexis Tocqueville's ideas about democracy and about life in the United States. Tocqueville is radical when considering life of a man in a democracy like the American one. He thinks that as the most anti-poetic thing of all. Further, Tocqueville explores what it have become of the old sources of inspiration for poetry, coming to the conclusion that the whole undivided attention of the poet and that of the reader is going to be fixed on man and man alone, after having passed through a transitory faze when having focused on nature with its "physical and inanimate objects."
In the book, Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry, by Robert Pinsky, we may find some answers to these questions.
Robert Pinsky starts in the first chapter "Culture" considering the "voice of poetry"..."within the culture of American democracy." He remarks that the human society fears the most often since its early ages from the important things: the uniformisation, by globalization, centralization, loss of diversity and the possibility of disappearing from the collective memory. An American poet says Pinsky, "embodies a single, in fact familiar, anxiety: that of being cut off from memory - forgotten"
According to Tocqueville, "the principle of equality does not, then, destroy all the subjects of poetry: it renders them less numerous, but more vast." Pinsky finds that Tocqueville's words could be those of a prophet when predicting the future of the American culture.
At some point, Pinsky declares his intentions of studying the relation between poetry and the…
Bibliography
1. Pinsky, Robert, Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry, Princeton University Press; (September 3, 2002)
Pinsky, Robert, Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry, Princeton University Press; (September 3, 2002), pg.2 ibid, pg. 6 ibid, pg. 13
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