ENGL 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Confessional Poetry, Radical Extension, Civil Disobedience
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Selfhood valued and defined away from tradition. Nature is the place for these present tense experiences. He wants to take us back to the origins of thought and language. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation with the universe. Stress on seeing the light is literalized and naturalized. The idea is not that nature is sacred, supernatural, or nature is god the light that arises out of a direct face to face encounter between human and natural world comes through the encounter. The natural triggers something that gives the human access to the divine spirit. Radical extension of most radical tendencies in protestant. The basis of any inside into the divine comes through unmediated inner experience rather than external religious ritual. The inner light is what you base your sense of things on. Protestant divorced self from catholic because there was too much emphasis on external forms rather than inner spirit.
