By "didactic" I mean "written in order to provide moral instruction." You're right about the SoS, assuming we take it as a love poem and not as an allegory of the relationship between man and God/Church.
--- andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 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
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