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On the new date in the World Poetic Calendar, which happened to be called The Negative Capability Day
Оглавление/To the KSMA friends,
With gratitude to J.K.
For the initiating as such a great idea of the Day./
Three years later, five years since th’Apocalypse72,
Which never happened, that of what old doubts
Be, still: if really happened so ’twill be not, —
The Beauty, dove-tailed thought73, will diseclipse,
As ever, people’s minds from dead uncertainty
In bounds of its genial transgnostic Art.
New coming Dawn will phrase on that. Redeemed world!
The Biggest Doubter of goodly mankind died
On freest Sunday74, and wasn’t it for Poet’s word,
Who came up’n new time to shake Great Negus75 hand,
Soothing no sword, if not in name of th’Unforeseen
All-Love? Unreasonable, called by Air so, Love,
That goes through the bounds of a Life-denial…
Mind, no ugly Trial on this day will be. —
How Mystery of Fate and Time takes Dream Exiled
Back to Light? not samely, as the Beauty ends old history?76
(18.12.2014 – 21/22.12.2014;
Moscow dacha by S. Posad)
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The year 2012, as you all might remember, was the expected year of the End of the World, what was promissed by Indian Calendar of Maya, so the reader can stay doubting not in those words of a poem; – accordingly, the year 2017 will be the year of 225th Birthday of P.B.Shelley, a big friend of J.Keats, what I suppose is mentioned to be somehow symbolical for all those who reads that poetry with their hearts.
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This is a beautiful expression of John Keats from his literaturiously-remarkable Letter dated by 21st (22d or 27th, the world still guessing) of December 1817, in which he expressed that original thought of so him-called «Negative Capability», what especially has become a titled idea of the new-brought day in the World Poetic Calendar.
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As you may know, in Roman Catholic Calendar, the date of death of St Thomas the Apostle, Thomas «the doubting», as he also used to be called in history, before 1969, was thought to be exactly on 21st of December. In that line, where I’ve been saying «on Sunday», firstly, I kept my eye on that coincidential truth, that the both days – of the Keats’ Letter and The Negative Capability Day 2014 – the Sundays. The rest of supposive guessing here could be of that, if St Thomas himself died, too, on Sunday, however this sort of exact truth for me is still unknown.
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The original Latin root of the words the «negative», «negativism»; to those, who wonder, how really objective I am in using as such a great meaning in the tight context of the poem, I should answer by addressing their quests to the last lines of the Keats’ Letter, and so, by reminding them of the very pointed there the «about-Shelley’s»; – with that, you can find your own way to analize the pre-motivation of me-written line of «hand-shake»..
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In fact, there is the second variant of this line: «…not samely, as the Beauty starts new history?» (…its newer history?); – so, let the readers be more enthusiastically creative, in cooperating their own vision with mine, in thinking that, how, and which way, towards the history, the Beauty universally improves itself.
