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Emily and Olivia Sands's Movie Review
(Olivia on left speaker - Emily on right.)
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Arthur Hughes 1832-1915, Sir Frank Dicksee 1853-1928, Frank Cadogan Cowper (Modern), Henry John William Waterhouse 1849 - 1917
Keat's poem was of interest to painters influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites who defined their style by combining art and literature. Taken embraces their use of Keats' poetry, as in La Belle Dame Sans Merci, in embodying the vision of Nature conversing with humanity.
Keat's poem was of interest to painters influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites who defined their style by combining art and literature. Taken embraces their use of Keats' poetry, as in La Belle Dame Sans Merci, in embodying the vision of Nature conversing with humanity.
NATURE IS HER REALM
Emily consistently refers to nature in her speech as do the psychologists when describing her. As a matter of course Dryads, Faeries and Nymphs play a part in Taken as they do in Romantic Poetry. The images and descriptions in the art and poetry below explore the possibility of an unseen but not inaccessible dimension of the natural world.
Play audios of the Keats poems mentioned in TAKEN
EMMA - Read by Malcolm Ingram La Belle Dame Sans Merci Read by John S. Martin
EMILY - ORIGINS
What is Emily and how and why does she mesmerize with Keats and Yeats? Is she possessed by a force beyond her controL or is she a mythical goddess come into our plane? Is she La Belle Dame, a nature elemental with a desire to draw in a worthy knight? Emily’s use of Keats is not an arbitrary choice. As mysterious as Emily might be Keats and Yeats also had knowledge of ancient Gnostic texts and how to achieve alternate reality states. Theories that their poetry contained codes exist as the following passages from The Jung Circle describe:
Keats instinctively lives the transrationality of gnosis, which requires creative passivity as a receptivity toward knowable mystery. Indeed, Keats is the most mystical of the Romantic poets in terms of valuing positively the self-affirming emptiness necessary to Gnostic insight.
The mythic idiom of Romanticism expresses the synchronicity of mind and Nature. Since myth, symbol, and metaphor are the natural language of the archetypes, a predominance of symbolic rather than conceptual thought exists in all Romantic poetry. Jung stresses the importance of the symbol in what he calls the "transcendent function", which through effecting a union of conscious and unconscious allows for a transition from one conscious attitude to another (SDP 69,73; ACU 289).
Maureen Roberts: jungcircle.com
The Game of Questions
For actors questioning is an exercise that helps listening and focus. For lawyers and psychologists it is a procedure to bring out truth. For philosophers and spiritualists it is a way to wisdom. It’s all a game of tennis.
In Taken questions play an important role. People are looking for life’s answer, the key to wisdom, and it is only by questioning that they discover, “find things.” It is also a way of controlling another person's thought process and gaining the upper hand.
BMA Studios staged this bout to examine this process further and to keep us on our toes.
