Do not be cross with poetry

[ellajam]

What's missing here (apart from half the posters and half the posts) is the fact that reading comprehension goes completely out the window when emotion is involved. If the reader is upset, others can APPEAR dense, malicious, delusional, defiant...anything really. I'm saying this just as much for myself as anyone else.

I guess different people respond differently. For me, reading comprehension does not go out the window when emotions are involved. If anything it makes me read more carefully, and reread and think about how what has sparked me can be interpreted. It makes me slower to respond while I try to figure out why something has gotten to me.

So speak for yourself.