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Louis Esterhuizen. Eenvoud en die trefkrag daarvan
Op die weblog Slate het Robert Plinsky onlangs ‘n interessante bydrae gelewer oor die skoonheid wat opgesluit lê in onpretensieuse eenvoud. Reeds met sy inleidende betoog maak Plinsky ‘n enorme stelling: “Sometimes, the most plain surfaces demand mastering the most extreme nuances. In a building or a garment, sometimes ornament and elaboration can conceal imperfect seams. Simplicity can demand perfection.” Ook noem hy Wallace Stevens se gedigte “The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm” en “The Comedian as the Letter C.” as voorbeelde van gedigte wat in hul “plainness or simplicity” deel uitmaak van ‘n “satisfying range”. Mmmm …
Dit is egter wanneer hy hierna uitgebreid begin skryf oor Anne Bradstreet (foto) wat hy my aandag vasvang; veral omrede Bradstreet Amerika se heel eerste vrouedigter was wat in Engels geskryf het en myns insiens haar tydgenote elders in die wêreld ietwat oorskadu het … (Bedoelende vrouedigters, uiteraard.) Bradstreet is in 1612 in Engeland gebore, maar het kort hierna saam met haar familie na Massachusetts verhuis waar sy in in 1672 gesterf het. (‘n Tydgenoot van John Milton, dus.)
Nietemin – Plinsky beskryf Bradstreet se digkuns soos volg: “Her work is plain in a way that might tempt some readers to condescension, but she knew the Latin poets and writes fluently within the conventions she chose, reaching considerable intensity of emotion and idea. Sometimes, her poems enter the interesting zone where plain truth testifies to the strange extremes of life itself.”
Die gedig wat hy as toonbeeld hiervan uitsonder is die gedig “Before the Birth of One of Her Children“. Hiervan sê Plinsky die volgende: “The poem proceeds from dignified, slightly stiff acknowledgements of the great, generic truths of mortality. The application of those truths to the risks of childbirth in the 17th century gains force from the poet’s quiet, in a way pragmatic manner of dealing with the known and the unknown. And her poem ends with a striking, frank imagination of loss. In 14 well-turned couplets, Bradstreet goes from the general, traditional wisdom of her first line to the immediacy of tears and paper.”
Vanoggend dan twee gedigte: Wallace Stevens se “The House Was Quiet And The World Was Calm“, gevolg deur Anne Bradstreet se “Before the Birth of One of Her Children“.
Tags: Anne Bradstreet, Robert Pinsky, Wallace Stevens	Monday, September 3rd, 2012 |