11-20-2012, 04:37 PM
Hi everyone.
I'm just contemplating a re-work of a poem where I allowed my personal passion and emotions to make it inhomprehensible to most readers.
I was wondering what views were out there concerning the issue of creating a peom that used poetic art perfecty, carried beautiful flowing rhyme and meter, and was music to the ear when read aloud, etc, etc...yet perhaps lacked that certain sparkle or real connection with anything. Against the poem which parhaps is not so perfect in form and beautiful on the ear...and yet manages to cross the internal filters of some readers and touch an achord within.
So I guess I'm also asking:- Which should carry the greater weight of influence when we write a piece. Technical form or Passion?
And do we need to carry an internal marker of how far we should target our poems to be for a certain identity or emotion or people group and accept that they will only reach a few. Or should all poems give most readers some connection or insight?
(Not sure if I've worded that last question quite right. Perhaps someone else can grasp my meaning here and re-word it better)
I'm just contemplating a re-work of a poem where I allowed my personal passion and emotions to make it inhomprehensible to most readers.
I was wondering what views were out there concerning the issue of creating a peom that used poetic art perfecty, carried beautiful flowing rhyme and meter, and was music to the ear when read aloud, etc, etc...yet perhaps lacked that certain sparkle or real connection with anything. Against the poem which parhaps is not so perfect in form and beautiful on the ear...and yet manages to cross the internal filters of some readers and touch an achord within.
So I guess I'm also asking:- Which should carry the greater weight of influence when we write a piece. Technical form or Passion?
And do we need to carry an internal marker of how far we should target our poems to be for a certain identity or emotion or people group and accept that they will only reach a few. Or should all poems give most readers some connection or insight?
(Not sure if I've worded that last question quite right. Perhaps someone else can grasp my meaning here and re-word it better)