#The cave soundtrack full#

And they go further than light goes and further than language goes. Who is this someone? We know nothing about them, really, except their curiosity and determination and continuation into a cave. What about вЂњcave personвЂќ or вЂњcave womanвЂќ? This poem is very, very careful about pronouns: вЂњsomeone,вЂќ вЂњthey.вЂќ And then, when we hear of the gendered вЂњcaveman,вЂќ something thatвЂ™s queered in this poem, we can think about, well, why do we speak about caveman? Just that it trips off the tongue with such repeated and received familiarity.

Sometimes, people might speak about the belly of a cave, or if you speak about a person whoвЂ™s been part of an endeavor and then say, вЂњOh, they caved in.вЂќ We can see ways within which this usage of the word вЂњcaveвЂќ enters into our language. Г“ Tuama: We speak about caves in strange ways. And we are asserting here that we are part of a great tribe of people who have done this exploration before and, perhaps, whose discoveries have been denied or silenced. Paul Tran is saying, no -В this stuffвЂ™s been explored before, and maybe it has been deliberately forgotten. And Paul Tran, I think, is challenging a certain idea that people might have, that thereвЂ™s something new to be discovered. This poem is so profoundly respectful of the creative and intellectual imaginations that have come before, that have made their own brave and solitary journeys into the cave of ideas, or into the cave of exploration of language or considerations, because it speaks about the objects that were left there before or the paintings on the wall, and suddenly, how, in the flickering light of your own candle, you become up on that wall, too, moving around and living, just in this changing light of a candle.ДЄnd I think that is such a deeply respectful approach within the poem. TheyвЂ™re like inner space, and that operates physically, as well as operates metaphorically, for people to think about going on a journey of bravery within themselves, or trying to discover something of their own unconscious or their own underground.ДЄnd the assertion, I think, of Paul Tran in this poem, I think what theyвЂ™re saying is that we need to continue to go into new caves or caves that we think are new, in order to mine the possibility for what it can mean to be human, together, in these brave explorations. This image of cave is something that calls us into continued, further exploration - to go further than light or language could go. But this image of cave isnвЂ™t just for the past. You can think of PlatoвЂ™s cave, and you can think of all these ways within which we think about cave-dwelling peoples in antiquity. Г“ Tuama: The image of cave has transfixed peopleвЂ™s archetypal imaginations. They followed the idea so far inside that When someone moved, casting their shadows Objects that couldnвЂ™t have found their way

Like two wolves-panting, hearing themselves And even though IвЂ™m alone, IвЂ™m not alone.

#The cave soundtrack full#

And IвЂ™m so full of gratitude, because, inasmuch as poetry can feel like a solitary journey while IвЂ™m by myself, nonetheless, when you read old poetry you realize, people have been asking these questions for thousands of years. I read contemporary poets as well as historical poets, and read poems from antiquity in Irish, where nobody really knows who the poet was. PГЎdraig Г“ Tuama, host: My name is PГЎdraig Г“ Tuama, and I feel a great debt of gratitude to poets.