Is the poetry concrete?
Concrete, as a product, refers immediately to strength, stillness, and durability. But – if solid vanishes in the air, if contemporary is liquid, if everything is relative in its essence – what could really be understood as concrete?
When we try to understand what is concrete, our focus should not be in the common sense, nor in what is closer, nor in images which are presented to us as obviously real, material, and perpetuous.
The biggest challenges of understanding the concreteness are in the things we do not know so well yet, but intend to reach. An example is the horizon, something intangible, but of which we can not deny the existence, even when hidden by concrete walls.
After all, if it is not concrete, is it necessarily unreal, or illusory? Is concrete only what we can touch? What to say of light, love, hope, and fear? What if concrete can also be understood as abstract? Even if we do not consider a metaphorical idea, does concrete continue being concrete if it has been fluidized or pulverized?
Maybe concreteness is in indeed in what we focus on, and not in the nature of the images we can see, be these real or virtual.
Facing this concreted, paradoxically, and absolutely incomprehensible dynamics, all we know is that concrete is relative, when poetry is concrete.
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When we try to understand what is concrete, our focus should not be in the common sense, nor in what is closer, nor in images which are presented to us as obviously real, material, and perpetuous.
The biggest challenges of understanding the concreteness are in the things we do not know so well yet, but intend to reach. An example is the horizon, something intangible, but of which we can not deny the existence, even when hidden by concrete walls.
After all, if it is not concrete, is it necessarily unreal, or illusory? Is concrete only what we can touch? What to say of light, love, hope, and fear? What if concrete can also be understood as abstract? Even if we do not consider a metaphorical idea, does concrete continue being concrete if it has been fluidized or pulverized?
Maybe concreteness is in indeed in what we focus on, and not in the nature of the images we can see, be these real or virtual.
Facing this concreted, paradoxically, and absolutely incomprehensible dynamics, all we know is that concrete is relative, when poetry is concrete.
http://www.elisabethsekulic.com/#!The-concreteness-of-concrete/j6us2/57575e0b0cf2a5fcbccb3092
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