![]() Inspiration in the story is the product of grace: it is unsought (though desired), uncontrolled, and irresistible, and the poet's performance involves his whole mind and body, but it is fundamentally a gift. He then composed " Cædmon's Hymn", and from then on was a great poet. One night, he had a dream where Jesus asked him to sing. Cædmon was a herder with no training or skill at verse. In the Venerable Bede's account of Cædmon, the Christian and later Germanic traditions combine. Their training was an attempt to learn to shape forces beyond the human. As with the Greek, Latin, and Romance literatures, Norse skalds were inspired by a magical and divine state and then shaped the words with their conscious minds. In northern societies, such as Old Norse, inspiration was likewise associated with a gift of the gods. For church fathers like Saint Jerome, David was the perfect poet, for he best negotiated between the divine impulse and the human consciousness. This understanding of "inspiration" is vital for those who maintain Biblical literalism, for the authors of the scriptures would, if possessed by the voice of God, not "filter" or interpose their personal visions onto the text. Saint Paul said that all scripture is given by inspiration of God ( 2 Timothy) and the account of Pentecost records the Holy Spirit descending with the sound of a mighty wind. In Christianity, inspiration is a gift of the Holy Spirit. Revelation is a conscious process, where the writer or painter is aware and interactive with the vision, while inspiration is involuntary and received without any complete understanding. However, inspiration is also a matter of revelation for the prophets, and the two concepts are intermixed to some degree. In the Book of Amos, 3:8 the prophet speaks of being overwhelmed by God's voice and compelled to speak. In Hebrew poetics, inspiration is similarly a divine matter. ![]() Technique and performance are independent of inspiration, and therefore it is possible for the non-poet to be inspired and for a poet or painter's skill to be insufficient to the inspiration. Inspiration is prior to consciousness and outside of skill ( ingenium in Latin). The artist would be transported beyond their own mind and given the gods' or goddesses own thoughts to embody. In Greek thought, inspiration meant that the poet or artist would go into ecstasy or furor poeticus, the divine frenzy or poetic madness. ![]() History of the concepts Ancient models of inspiration In modern psychology inspiration is not frequently studied, but it is generally seen as an entirely internal process. The Marxist theory of art sees it as the expression of the friction between economic base and economic superstructural positions, or as an unaware dialog of competing ideologies, or as an exploitation of a "fissure" in the ruling class's ideology. Psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung's theory of inspiration suggests that an artist is one who was attuned to their creative instinct which encoded the archetypes of the human mind. In the early 20th century, psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud believed himself to have located inspiration in the inner psyche of the artist. In the 19th century, Romantic poets such as Coleridge and Shelley believed that inspiration came to a poet because the poet was attuned to the (divine or mystical) "winds" and because the soul of the poet was able to receive such visions. In the 18th century philosopher John Locke proposed a model of the human mind in which ideas associate or resonate with one another in the mind. In the Book of Amos the prophet speaks of being overwhelmed by God's voice and compelled to speak. Inspiration is also a divine matter in Hebrew poetics. Similarly, in the Ancient Norse religions, inspiration derives from the gods, such as Odin. The Greeks believed that inspiration or " enthusiasm" came from the muses, as well as the gods Apollo and Dionysus. The concept has origins in both Hellenism and Hebraism. Inspiration (from the Latin inspirare, meaning "to breathe into") is an unconscious burst of creativity in a literary, musical, or visual art and other artistic endeavours. A webcomic illustrating how inspiration may vary over time The cathedral had burnt down during a riot now Justinian would build an even more beautiful one. ![]() Unconscious burst of creativity Book illustration of Byzantine Emperor Justinian's inspiration for Hagia Sophia.
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