I suck...and other things...

[Truerenigma]

^^^ I don't know. Life to me (and I think to most) is a back and forth between simplicity and complexity. Almost every great scientist I've read echoes this thought. Look at the Beatles. Why were they so great? Most of all, it's because they created so many simple melodies that stuck in people's hearts and minds. You can hum such melodies and people will remember them. So many pop artists try and try and try to create just one that will stick in people's minds. They created 70-80.

Yet I don't think people would accuse the Beatles of lacking in complexity in their career as artists.

Maybe that's a poor example...

As an educator, the learning process itself is one of opening oneself to the unknown, fostering that sense of disequilibrium in oneself. Over time, you mature your thought processes, you come to certain realizations, moments of clarity and simplicity. Pretty normal part of the learning process.

Anyway...

I don't think we are both in the same conversation ...

what does poetry have to do with life? poetry is trying to hold a button up with a stream of water from a squirt gun.

in life you eventually will need to put the squirt gun down and sow the button back on, but not in poetry.

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PS> Remember rayheinrich's poem "You" in the spotlighting-the-hogs section that people were fond of here? I think that's a good example of the use of a repetition ..."all about you again..."

Ray's poem is equally simpler as it is more complex. The narrator took the addressee (or did the addressee take the narrator) through all of the seasons. Ultimately the refrain takes on many different shades despite the poem's plaintive tone.