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"Moon
you were my sacine4s
pictured in your
solitude
I spoke your name
in syllabics
of gold
of tangerine
of silver tone
That was in reverie
before your fall."
Apparently even man's spectacular conquest of the moon
has a slight touch of nostalgia.
- Because now comes the question, Midi happens to one of
the great inspirations of poets and songwriters now that man's
technology has unveiled the rnoon as nothing more than a
pock-marked wasteland of rocks and craters?
"The mystery of the moon is gone." laments one such
man, Robert F. Lima, poet, critic, and associate professor of
Spanish and Comparative Literature.
"To the poet, the invasion of the moon is something like
having a celestial joke played on him. For ages and a;.ies. he
has written about the moon in song and verse:, linking her to
love and fantasy, majesty and divinity; yet, suddenly, he finds
THOUGH HE MAY be a bit premature, Robert F. Lima
says today's contemporary poet might have a better view
of the Earth by seeing it and writing about it from the
moon.
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that hi, place has been usurped and that his symbol ho., been
delioweled "
And now that man's race to space Mis taken this
traditional symbol of romanticism down Porn her pedestal.
Lima says today's pact will have to relate to the moon in ways
quite niiierent from those of the past.
"He may either completely ignore the moon, start making
light of her as one more :ibsurcinv in Inan ' s Ide, or try to
create a ni , o-romantic image of life there, n,ayhe oven ex
claiming: 'Long live man on the moon!'" the prolessar sug
goals.
"It. could be that the Apollo mission. cle:soite its put eiv
technological achievement, may inspire the tirst real epic
poem of modern literature. In recent u•nturscs there hasn't
been a subject big enough or worthy enough for epic con
sideration. Ceitamly the landing by man on the moon
generates the excitement and ape necessary for such
inspira 1: on."
But the day of the moon as a romantic.
Luna maintains.
"Frank Smatra's 'Fly INIe To The _Moon' could «011 be the
\Tr. , last romantic song w: Men about the moon," he says.
"The songwriters of today will halve to change their style.
They can't romanticize about the moon ,alymore, hvf,ziu the
mystery has been explained and it , exotic aspect deliur<ed.
When you know what something'; about, it loses its apeeH."
As for the poet, Lima expects many may chno-o to ignore
the moon completely because its anon-,n'; rote in .1.. - )ace ex
ploration has made It El Slepp3ll. - 4-stone for c hat cone call nu , .
m; society, a new symbol for celowzation and e\-
pleitat,on.
"Even before the advent of the space prr Lt o . even
before projects like Vanguard. Ger - 113m and Apollo were heard
of, modern day poets began trending away from the romant'c
image of the moon," Libia point, oat.
"T: , O contemporary poets more invoked wnh the
socioeconomic problems of the more
of natural
reserves, hunger, over-population. rroinal iniii-bee. lip- and
order, palillcat hypocrisy and other human concern: Who; c
such ~ IJimfe,sts ~bound there's very little room len for poettr
that Is romantic."
While Allred Noyes, for example• a,re'e el the al , h.ri
ghostly eulleon tossed upon cloudy teddy': pact e, era -
mg in the , I;here nt prote , a and elate-a
Yet, while poets arc going throt,gh Urn.; metamorphosis
theuvtt c;, Lima fuck people us people w:11 continue to ta'.e
great pleasure in being able to look up and see ;a
moon--cven though it is Just rocks and elate
earth it v ill still be heautilul.
"As Jodi , 1 tleak—and hopel—thai we 1\ ilt stilt llndl
beauty in nature. dei-pite our increasing technological
s. , olusllcation." he saYs "The ehangeag moon alya;
iernmcl u., of our ielalisely humble achle‘.ement , „
But what of the cantempf)rary pout.' What 01 hi , \ a.e.% ,•I
the moan? Perhap, offers Lama. the ansucr Ire in sennaig
one there someday.
The poet on the moon will be able to get a clearer \ io
or the uni‘el,e, - he , iri,ge:as. man-v of trql, v's
hale lost sight of the beauty of the inaero,...c-m. In tahaig
thorn g front the problems el (s ril). a new ereatr.o
mansion could take place in them. Sach a 30000ey would make
rt po., , ahae 100 th,. , port k. ,ee the o (tut, a
now sec the moon from the earth. The and ol
such a 5100, indeed its ih‘e. 0.011111 pleainnalull,
the, eretemine ‘iely the poet lims has of his mother
planet.-
ppropriately. on the very o‘e of nn , n . , fir,t dome,
altunpn to ;actually land on the ~bc, f -t Louoa pet I and
I rofessor. has allanraitecl to calA , e t . feehoes in the way he
know, best—thr,ueh a poem entaltal "Apollo."
"RUSHING
to ha 7 - ITH MOCM.
INC rope OHC) t VCilltL.
the clash with :Marc
are tuft without a scrawl
our rhetoric
We are content
to spend oitisclues
with reason
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But can't help but marvel
;it the giant strides the nation
11,s taken in conquering the
\No:niers of space.
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never meet the timetable we
for sekeu." by con
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.I,oe,ars., 1967. W. Pen the Apollo
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