A.L. P.H.D.A. T.A. DAY

"If there’s a purpose for poets (which I believe there is), it is to represent their age…Roland and his people, however, are fools (and perhaps poets are too)…such things as politics are uninteresting to the writers

So don’t stop, ever

Strive for the phrase that makes your blood pump

So that the next life may start impressed

With a record of truth"

^A quick interpretation of passage 5 from Book 5 of "Aurora Leigh."

Define "Epic Art"

For me, not as a take on the book, but merely as a reaction, Epic Art is the kind that takes your breath away...which is entirely up to the person percieving "it," "it" being whatever that person considers art.

I suppose the next jump there, one conceding my self-absorption to others, is to say "epic art" is the work that the vast majority of people agree is astounding work.

But what do they know?

Define "Modern Life"

Ugh, all life is "modern." To be alive is to live and thus the time in which you live will always be the latest as far as we perceive it. The next second is the modern. Perhaps the only way to not live a modern life is to live in the past...although there I possibly falter, my melancholy nature betraying a fondness for regret in some regard (but certainly not on the whole). Still, if someone chooses to live in an "old way" I can not call them "old-fashioned" unless their motivations for doing so include an irrational disdain for the "new" rather than an honest appreciation for the "old."

Can there be heros in modern life?

You're reading the writing of one. Be your own hero baby!

Who are the modern day equivalents of the poets that A.L. is writing about?

(In your opinion)

Who's opinion would it belong to otherwise?

I think the modern day equivalents of the poets A.L. is writing about are just those, the poets. Perhaps this is simple and the desired answer more specific (cite a specific writer? Okay, ME.) but there it is.

I hate the phrase "living historian."

For now, I choose not to explain why.

:p