Seamus Heaney・The Poetry of Zbigniew Herbert (Excerpt)
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- This one hour long presentation is available in full here vimeo.com/2146652
Seamus Heaney reads and reflects on the poetry of Zbigniew Herbert. This event was organised by the Irish Polish Society Dublin, Ireland-Poland Cultural Foundation and the Polish Embassy in Ireland.
IRISH WRITERS' CENTRE
16 October 2008
Camera : Marek Bogacki
Produced by DOCUMENTAVI MMVIII
Great great! Thx!
This nearly made me cry
Thanks for uploading this and directing me to the whole reading, which I immediately went to and watched. Herbert is a fascinating poet and I thoroughly enjoyed Heaney's lecture about Herbert and his reading of some of Herbert's poems.
I also need to add that the graceful lines of the kind of architecture he was viewing also qualifies it as "motionless dance."
can someone help me out on how to analysis herberts poem: architecture. Thanks for any help!
As a quick guess, the poem seems to be celebrating the beauty of architecture as art, as a fluid painting or sculpture; he calls it "art of fantasy and stone." He personifies it: an arch is "an eyebrow of stone"; a wall has an "unruffled forehead." He calls it "a fugitive from apparent forms," perhaps because it merges and changes with the light and the environment that surrounds it, thus transcending any form. It is "motionless dance," an oxymoron, something seemingly contradictory but true.
I think Herbert also saw himself as a kind of biblical prophet, of being in the same position as a biblical prophet. In one Mr. Cogito poem he mentions "the suffering of the prophets," and in "The Envoy of Mr. Cogito," the speaker warns himself to beware of pride, to "repeat: I was called - weren't there better ones than I," reminiscent of the call of the biblical prophets and their answer: Here am I! Send me." The prophets were aware of their inferior status and duty to respond nevertheless.
@AlbinusMakedonion I agree and disagree in equal measure. I love Buk, but for me he was a little TOO eager to dis poetry and culture, almost as if he was trying to create a certain image of 'hip coolness'. Heaney treats poetry as a vocation and makes no bones about it, I admire him completely for that.
I don't like the poems of Heaney. I respect him, though, admirable man, yes. But he's one of the many injust and confusing selections of the Swedish Academy. So many great poets and writers out there... massive and hidden masters of language and letters that are so damned ignored.
Herbert is an amazing poet, and so the other Nobel Laureates: Milosz and Szymborska, love them!
Rafael Cisneros unfortunately, Herbert didnt get a nobel prize.
poetry shouldnt be confined to these small groups it was invented for the masses. this happens with everything e.g. music and dance the rich people come in and make them expensive so only they can enjoy it.