Welsh Journals

attraction toward beauty and an equally intense fascination by the ugliness which is contrasted with it and which destroys it. This balance of contrasted emotion is in the dramatic situation to which the speech is pertinent, but that situation alone is in- adequate to it. This is, so to speak, the structural emotion, proyided by the drama. But the whole effect, the dominant tone, is due to the fact that a number of floating feelings, having an affinity to this emotion by no means superficially evident, have combined with it to give us a new art emotion." I mi, y mae'r ymadrodd olaf yn arwyddocaol iawn. Teflir goleuni arno gan ddadl Eliot nad cywir disgrifiad Wordsworth Poetry takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquil- lity." For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor, with- out distortion of meaning, tranquillity." Busnes y bardd, yn ôl Eliot, yw nid mynegi emosiynau hen a newydd, ond defnydd- io'r rhai cyffredin a thrwy ei gweithio yn farddoniaeth, creu teimladau nad ydynt mewn emosiynau gwirioneddol o gwbl. Gellir dadlau mai rhan o baradocs barddoniaeth yw ei bod yn creu teimladau fel y rhain, ond yr hyn sy'n fwy fyth o baradocs yw fod y teimladau hyn ynghlwm wrth y geiriau a ddefnyddir i'w creu. Mewn rhyddiaith y mae'r ystyr yn llifo atom drwy'r geiriau. Wedi i ni gael yr ystyr, gallwn anghofio'r geiriau gwreiddiol a defnyddio geiriau eraill i'w throsglwyddo. Nid felly mewn barddoniaeth. Y mae ystyr y farddoniaeth-a dylid sylweddoli nad yr un peth ydyw ag ystyr y geiriau­-ynghlo yn y geiriau fel y'u defnyddir, ac unwaith yr anghofir y geiriau, collir ystyr y farddoniaeth, neu, a defnyddio term T. S. Eliot, collir y teimlad- au a greir yn y farddoniaeth. Dyna paham y dywedodd John Middleton Murry am y beirdd mewn cyswllt arall: "These are the men who have uttured a truth so mysterious that it cannot be wrenched apart from the words in which they uttered it; it cannot be made current or passed from lips to lips save in that living flesh of speech with which they clothed it." J. E. Caerwyn Wtt.ltams.