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It’s like it had materialised out of the empty air. No seasons existed there, or yesterdays and tomorrows. Decoupled now, lighter, its glossy emblems of the actual world, as opposed to the purely emotional ones that otherwise dominate, were free to accumulate a kind of supernatural significance.
Built around grand, illogical, intuitive associations, Symbolist poetry’s structures and conceits favoured dreams, visions and the associative powers of the imagination. Believing the purpose was not to represent reality but to access greater truths by the systematic derangement of the senses, it rejected its predecessors’ tendencies towards naturalism and realism. As a movement it bore a hostility to plain meanings, preferring instead to clothe the ideal in perceptible form. It proclaimed the validity of pure subjectivity and the expression of an idea over a realistic description of the natural world. Symbols were not allegories, intended to represent, but rather to evoke ineffable intuitions…
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It’s like it had materialised out of the empty air. No seasons existed there, or yesterdays and tomorrows. Decoupled now, lighter, its glossy emblems of the actual world, as opposed to the purely emotional ones that otherwise dominate, were free to accumulate a kind of supernatural significance.
Built around grand, illogical, intuitive associations, Symbolist poetry’s structures and conceits favoured dreams, visions and the associative powers of the imagination. Believing the purpose was not to represent reality but to access greater truths by the systematic derangement of the senses, it rejected its predecessors’ tendencies towards naturalism and realism. As a movement it bore a hostility to plain meanings, preferring instead to clothe the ideal in perceptible form. It proclaimed the validity of pure subjectivity and the expression of an idea over a realistic description of the natural world. Symbols were not allegories, intended to represent, but rather to evoke ineffable intuitions…
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