03-08-2013, 01:13 PM
I'm sorry I missed these few comments, I hope you don't think me too rude!
I don't mean to be vague, but at the end of the day if that's what it means to you, then that's what it means. We're in a slightly rarefied atmosphere here in a workshop where we get the rare opportunity to actually converse reader-to-writer, but I tend to veer away from offering my own meaning for my poems. I hope that doesn't seem too deliberately vague -- it's just that when the writing is done, I become just another reader myself so I tend to impose a meaning that wasn't necessarily in my head when it all came out.
I don't mean to be vague, but at the end of the day if that's what it means to you, then that's what it means. We're in a slightly rarefied atmosphere here in a workshop where we get the rare opportunity to actually converse reader-to-writer, but I tend to veer away from offering my own meaning for my poems. I hope that doesn't seem too deliberately vague -- it's just that when the writing is done, I become just another reader myself so I tend to impose a meaning that wasn't necessarily in my head when it all came out.
Quote:From The History Boys, one of my favourite films:
Timms: I don't always understand poetry!
Hector: You don't always understand it? Timms, I never understand it. But learn it now, know it now and you will understand it... whenever.
It could be worse