![]() ![]() ![]() It's not, then, that Persephone's explanation falls short of the truth it is actively combative of the truth. But the poet again counters: Ignorance itself is active, inventive, but producing pseudo-knowledge. Common sense supposes that it is curiosity that leads to knowledge ignorance, in its passive receptivity, is a dumping-ground for misconceptions, false beliefs, superstitions. It protects Persephone from the truth of what happened in its own counterfeit creativity, it devises a replacing lie. The poet counters the received notion of ignorance as pure contentlessness (Locke's ‘white paper’) 2 with a notion of ignorance as will. Persephone is not responsible for what happened to her. Ignorance / wills something imagined, which it believes exists.’ Simply: She can't suppose that she wanted something of which she knew nothing. Even, sometimes, / I willed this.’ The poet intervenes to correct her: ‘But ignorance / cannot will knowledge. ‘Then she says, I offered myself, I wanted / to escape my body. Somewhat after these events, she returns to the place of her abduction. I begin somewhat obliquely with Louise Glück's poem, ‘A Myth of Innocence.’ It relates the story of Persephone, a god's daughter, abducted, raped and then wed by another god. Louise Glück’s poem ‘A Myth of Innocence’ 1 ![]()
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