Works of poetry and literature do not have to be placed within their historical perspectives in order to be understood or the tale to be told and the message received by the reader/listener. While I am willing to acknowledge literary works do carry with them a sense of the mood of the age in which it was written, I do believe some things are simply universally understood no matter in what age they are written or read.

Which isn’t to say I am at all buying into the whole collective unconscious theory of literary creation — where the ideas and concepts are all just floating around out there in an invisible primordial soup of interconnectedness waiting to be tapped into by those open to it, actively seeking it, or just accidentally happening upon it.

Just an odd little train-of-thought that’s been running through my mind all night. No idea why.