tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857552686265172563.post4996256403662504099..comments2022-12-07T04:14:41.549-08:00Comments on Omega Profblog: ExilesTeam Omegahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16827656206387403554noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857552686265172563.post-17499289448018381332012-02-08T16:04:12.379-08:002012-02-08T16:04:12.379-08:00It is so easy to be entwined within memories by ar...It is so easy to be entwined within memories by art; the “songs / of love that used to quiet all my longings” (107-08) and you hearing the "echoes of flamenco" It's an idea that is encompassed within the Purgatory. Art as an idea, art as knowledge, art as love and beauty. It shapes our lives, emotions, thoughts, and memories. <br /><br />Exile in a sense can be construtive and beneficial to the one exiled like Dante or your Spanish gentleman friend. From exile one is disconnected and tossed within the realms of the unknown. Going back to the idea of seperating oneself from the polis and into nature in The Phaedrus, we are then given the ability to truly discover something about ourselves or life. We are able to disengage ourselves from the restricting structure and suffocating regimes that shapes us within certain ideas and beliefs. The term exile has a negative connotation when one hears it. That-- oh, one has been banished and thrown away from all that is known and familiar. But we as well as Dante can take from being exiled something greater; Dante transformed himself from the man he became once the love of his life died, a man that took wrong paths and wasn't able to wholly embrace his destiny-- back into a child, an innocent and naive state of being. We are rebirthed in our seperations from the things that tie us down to familiars, we are liberated from ideas that we sometimes find ourselves adhered to, and we find peace and solace within the things that have broken us.Erika Lainoreply@blogger.com