[New-Poetry] This deep image

[jforjames at aol.com]

"Whoever speaks in primordial images speaks with a thousand voices. . . This is the secret of great art. . . the unconscious activation of an archetypal image and. . . elaborating and shaping this image into the finished work. By giving it shape, the artist translates it into the language of the present, so makes it possible for us to find our way back to the deepest springs of life. Therein lies the social significance of art; the artist is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms in which the age is most lacking. The. . . artist reaches back to the primordial image. . . which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present. . . seizes on this image, and . . . brings it into relation with conscious values, thereby transforming it until it can be accepted by the minds of his contemporaries according to their powers."

—C.G. Jung, "On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry"
 
"transforming it until it can be accepted by the minds of his contemporaries according to their powers." 
But it may be impossible for those unable to disengage from the post-modernist mindset to 
access deep image poetry fully. 
Finnegan


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