Theos-Talk Archives (August 1998 Message tt00230)

Bjorn wrote:

> > > I think the "poetic language" is intentional and an integral part of the
> > > message.
> >
> > What purpose does this 'intent' serve?
>
> Yes, why are people using poetic language at all? Why do people enjoy poetry?
>
> Your answer is probabley as good as mine. Personally I think that our feeling
> nature, and intuitional faculties, often respond to poetic language in a way
> that purely intellectual discourse can not accomplish.
>

OK, I see. I guess it`s not my kind of poetry then.

Somehow, I find it inappropriate (or it makes it sound a bit banal )
when this kind of straight 'teaching'kind of text is expressed this way.

My ears like it more when spiritual poetry is much more veiled, more
art-like.


Mika Perala


P.S. Bjorn, are you Swedish? Or a descent of Swedes?


P.S.S. I hope you can understand my sometimes weird expressions.