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Poiesis, sacred abode of Mnemosyne, Memory’s Lamp, and her divine Muses, whose glorious expressive forms, emanating from the light and hidden spheres, from the fecund creative spirit, Poiesis, blesses imagination with a spell capable of transforming the universe with their wondrous inspiration.7
Thus, the imagination leaps ahead of Mnemosyne, inspired by life’s vicissitudes and odysseys and their enduring struggle of contraries. And meandering through Tragedy’s Way, it discovers the yearned for other, Poiesis of the Wondrous Way, the dwelling of Persephone- Sophia, caretakers of Shelley’s Poiesis’ mirror, which transforms the distorted into Beauty.8 If Persephone possesses Aphrodite’s mirror in the Underworld, Sophia possesses Plato’s mirror of Perfect Beauty beyond ‘i’m’ an i’mage of the ages. The imagination inspires. It illumines. And in so doing, its refulgent images turn
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7 Heath, William. Major British Poets of the Romantic Period. Blake, W. Annotation to Wordsworth’s Poem. New York: McMillan Publishing Co. 161
8 Shelley, Percy. A Defence of Poetry. The Works of P.B. Shelley. Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions Limited, 1994.
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