06-15-2013, 07:27 PM
(06-15-2013, 06:25 PM)cidermaid Wrote: Does a poem…?
…need to be PC?
Not being PC is being PC from the opposite stance.
So there's no 'need to' involved; whether it likes it or not, every poem IS PC.
(06-15-2013, 06:25 PM)cidermaid Wrote: …need to have an understandable, or at least some level of discernible meaning?
Poems exist only if they can be perceived. They do this
through the use of words, pictures, sounds, et al.
Anything that can be perceived has a meaning, no matter
how trivial. Since no two perceivers are alike, each one
will assign the poem a different meaning. There is no such
thing as 'meaningless'. (That term, by the way, usually means:
"I don't like the damn thing." or "Its meaning disagrees with mine."
or "I'm too stupid [or lazy] to articulate my own meaning so
I'll just say it doesn't have one."
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