Today we hold different views about its
meaning. “Beat” has come to mean either “tired”
or Beat” with values and consumerism or “beat”
to denote the musical notation in Jazz, a style of
music which often accompanied by oral
recitations. Throughout the course of this essay we
will examine it in the context of shamanism.
Poetry and shamanism
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The ancient poet was a kind of shaman, who
believing in animism, saw spirit in all living and
even inanimate things. This has been called “the
shamanistic flight” and was often accompanied by
elaborate costumes and feathers. This was closely
related to what Robert Graves called “the poetic
trance” (Harvey & Wallis, 2007). He believed
poetry to be written in the poetic state or
“trance”. This can be compared to what La Berre
calls the “prehistoric shaman”. The prehistoric
shaman was the “original artist, dancer, musician,
singer, dramatist, intellectual, poet, bard,
ambassador, adviser of chiefs and kings,
entertainer, actor and clown, curer, stage
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