#3. Sunday Morning Poetry: Art as Religion
The Troubadour Podcast
English - April 01, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 53.5 MBBooks Arts Health & Fitness poetry literature literature and life historical stories wisdom of the ages Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: #2. Sunday Morning Poetry: Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
Happy Easter! On Sunday Morning Poetry #3 I'm reading the poem "Sailing to Byzantium" by William Butler Yeats. This is a poem often thought to be about Yeats' views on life after death. But I believe it's about Art as a religion, and, specifically, about the idea of reincarnation or "resurrection in our natural lives."The coward dies many deaths, but the brave man dies but once." Julius Caesar.How can we worship reincarnation if we are an humanist atheist? How can we appreciate the death and rebirth of our own selves?Well listen in.I'll be discussion:The story of Easter according to Christianity (Christ's resurrection)The story of DemeterThe Rape of PersephoneThe story of Dionysus (Bacchus)The Eleusinian MythsCiceroThe Dionysian festivalAnd of course a converse with verse with Sailing to Byzantium.