Andrey's questions about poems (split from the intro thread)

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Brie.

Brie? Why? Cheese is cheese. All cheese provides nutrition and having all these flavors is nothing more than a triumph of flavor over sustenance. Obscuring nutrition behind a mishmash of herbs and spices.

You can't just lump flavors of cheese and styles of poetry together. You can taste cheese, you can sense it with your taste buds. How can you experience poetry in any style?

Experience a poem is exactly what I do. Sure, I just read plenty of them but the "good" ones ( which can be different for each of us) touch every part of me: Thought, emotion, reflex, joy, fear, grief, play. They stick with me the same way I carry my other experiences, I feel lucky to have come in contact with them.

I saw in a later post that you said we were confusing you with our different views. That's because we are individual people, people who have thought about poetry and come to our own individual conclusions. That's the beauty of the Pigpen, seeing things from multiple points of view and being pushed to think about the poem or topic to figure out my own. It's like spinning a cut stone and seeing it from all different angles. Fun and intriguing.