Name: TEDx】詩の勇気。 アリシア・スタリングス＠TEDxThessaloniki (【TEDx】The Courage of Poetry: Alicia Stallings at TEDxThessaloniki)
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A poet is perhaps an unusual choice for an inspirational speaker --

poets as a general rule, as a type - I wouldn't say all poets,

but, have a tendency to be a bit depressive, introspective. (Laughter)

They want to go up into their garrets and write their poems,

So the idea of coming out and public speaking about courage

is an interesting thing for a poet to be doing.

I was interested in what Victoria had to say about courage and the writer,

because it also seems a bit strange for me,

living here in Greece, where we have free speech,

You know, maybe where there are women in Afghanistan who risk death to write their poems.

But, I have been thinking about the courage to create,

and what keeps coming to my mind is a sentence

where he defines a quality which he calls negative capability,

which is something  I'm sure many of you have heard of.

He was talking about  the genius of Shakespeare

And he defined negative capability as the ability to be in uncertainties,

mysteries, doubt - without any irritable reaching after fact or reason.

To me this isn’t exactly "courage". I think of courage as maybe

defined in this very sort of positive way,

courage as mastering fear, or conquering fear,

and negative capability is something not quite that.

If we think of fear as fear of change, fear of the unknown,

and particularly for artists,  fear of failure

which is change and the unknown, together.

This negative capability is not a way of conquering

existing amongst them, and living in them,

and moving in the space that they create.

Change and the unknown and even failure is a space where we create,

I think of also the symbol of poetic inspiration

we think of the winged horse Pegasus, (Greek:Pegasus)

whose name, of course, comes from  the greek "pigi" -- a spring or source

and that wonderful surge of flight, the flight of inspiration.

But for me, the symbol of poetic inspiration is the bat,

(Greek: nychterída) because unlike birds,  for instance -- or Pegasus I guess,

I don’t know about the physics of Pegasus,

birds are able to get into flight, to create the lift out of their own efforts

and construction to get off the ground  and into flight.

Bats, if they're on the ground, are stuck.

on the ground or in a documentary or something,

but it's like watching a stilt walker with crutches or something.

in a cave or a tree and fall into flight.

A bat has to drop into the unknown  in order to fly,

and I feel that the creation of poetry is something like that.

But it's not when we're afraid, we want to control everything around us,

but that in order to create we have to give up control

So, a bat falls into flight, into that half-light of dusk

and then, proceeds to move through the world,

not by looking where it is going, but by listening where it is going.

and how I write poetry, how I read poetry.

So, this is a poem. "Explaining an Affinity for Bats".

That they are only glimpsed in silhouette,

And seem something else at first  -- a swallow --

And move like new tunes, difficult to follow,

Somehow telling solid things from hollow,

Sounding out how high a space,  or shallow,

That they sing --  not the way the songbird sings

(Whose song is rote, to ornament, finesse) --

Who find their way by calling into darkness

To hear their voice bounce off  the shape of things.

I'm sure you all are sitting there thinking, "Why that was a sonnet?"

Yes, the other thing I can say I'm mostly -- most known for is

working within traditional forms, meter and rhyme,

which has maybe not been  the most fashionable thing

There is a lot of misconception about form.

I think people think of --  Well, you hear a lot about poetry being

about self expression and freedom of expression.

I'm not really interested in expressing myself, I don't really think I'm that interesting.

and finding out  what the poem has to say to me

I mean, any teenager who's miserably in love,

will express him or herself in a poem. It's not necessarily a good poem.

So, I am interested in how to express what the poem wants to say

and that again is a giving up of control.

So, for me working within forms within certain patterns,

which is maybe the most mysterious of all the rhetorical devices,

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TEDx】詩の勇気。アリシア・スタリングス＠TEDxThessaloniki (【TEDx】The Courage of Poetry: Alicia Stallings at TEDxThessaloniki)

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TEDx】詩の勇気。 アリシア・スタリングス＠TEDxThessaloniki (【TEDx】The Courage of Poetry: Alicia Stallings at TEDxThessaloniki)

write

unknown

love

mother

TEDx】詩の勇気。アリシア・スタリングス＠TEDxThessaloniki (【TEDx】The Courage of Poetry: Alicia Stallings at TEDxThessaloniki)