But is what's good about the Divine Commedy the didacticism? Do we gain from the story of Fransceso & Paolo the moral, Don't Fornicate, or from Farinat, Pride is Bad? Which is like reading the point of Hamlet as saying Revenge is Bad. That is a dull reading. And so forth. Tolstoi can be preacher too - is that what we value in his writing? Brw, Eccclesiates isa lament, not excavtly preachy,a nd if you think the Song of Songs is didactic, we have different understands of the word. Didiactic art and didictic interpretaions are common because they are easy, but it's rarely what makes stuff good. What makes it good generally is the vividness of the experience depicted and the beauty of the language. That's my opinion. jks
--- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com>:
>
> >
> > Sure, but we don't have to agree with the morals
> for
> > it to be good art. The Illiad holds up an ideal
> that
> > we find repugnant. The Divine Comedy is based in
> > premises most of us reject. Actually, really good
> > didactic art is hard to find.
>
> --
>
> The Divine Comedy _is_ didactic. :) The Greeks
> interpreted Homer in a somewhat didactic way, using
> the Iliad and Odyssey literally as a textbook on
> what
> virtue and honor were. The Bible is didactic (of
> course), and contains Ecclesiastes and the Song of
> Songs, both of which I think are achingly beautiful.
> The Qu'ran. Lots of religious poetry. Therese
> Desqueroux. Paul Claudel. Late Tolstoy.
>
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