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30 Νοε 2013 · This document is a poem about remembering a past love and relationship. The speaker thought they could forget their ex-partner, but finds that the memories still haunt them. Many little things remind the speaker of their ex and the happy times they had together.
Poems about forgetting the past offer solace, encouragement, and a gentle reminder that we have the ability to release ourselves from the burdens of yesterday. Let's delve into a few captivating poems that beautifully capture this sentiment.
For a moment I thought I could forget you. For a moment I thought I could still the restlessness in my heart. I though the past could no longer haunt me – nor hurt me. How wrong I was! For the past, no matter how distant, is as much a part of me as life itself. And you are part of that life.
The authors seek to delineate an ars oblivionis in 20th- and 21stcentury British literature, a poetics of forgetting in which oblivion’s ghostly remains make for emancipatory swerves from the past and for the advent of new narrative configurations.
Hewitt’s early 1970s poem, ‘Neither an Elegy nor a Manifesto’ is a poem about the politics of memory and memorialising, and an embodiment of them; it also has, or courts, the quality of being forgettable, even as it wants to make itself heard.
Hewitt’s poem, like any poem, is a finished and complete object; it has a kind of physical form, preserved on the page, in the book; but the process of reading is also one of discarding and forgetting, something that takes place over time.
In doing so, it formulated the historiographical imperative as a negation forgetting that problematized the truth-value of memory and the very act of the past. Keywords: Greek memory, temporality, contingency of chance, ancient historiography, genres of memory, historical imperative, forgetting.
