De werkelijkheid en niets dan de werkelijkheid, dacht ik, maar ik weet nu, woorden zijn geen atomen. Nooit verschijnt de werkelijkheid, wat dat ook is. Je bent veroordeeld tot mimesis, tot nabootsing, tot schepping van een nieuwe. Teleurstelling. En toen las ik Ann Carson. Sommigen denken dat mimesis zoiets is als een snapshot nemen van een gebeurtenis, en dat je dan op de pagina zoiets hebt als ‘a perfect record’, zegt ze. Zo ziet ze het niet. Ze definieert mimesis anders. Een gedicht is volgens haar ‘an action of the mind’. De mimesis bestaat eruit dat je als lezer eenzelfde gedachtestroom ervaart, eenzelfde denkactiviteit uitvoert die de dichter eerder uitvoerde, dat je meebeweegt, ‘so by the time you get to the end you\u2019re different than you were at the beginning and you feel that difference’. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When they talk about poetry, they talk about mimesis as the action that the poem has, in reality, on the reader. Some people think that means the poet takes a snapshot of an event and on the page you have a perfect record. But I don\u2019t think that\u2019s right; I think a poem, when it works, is an action of the mind captured on a page, and the reader, when he engages it, has to enter into that action. And so his mind repeats that action and travels again through the action, but it is a movement of yourself through a thought, through an activity of thinking, so by the time you get to the end you\u2019re different than you were at the beginning and you feel that difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,4],"tags":[852],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}