09-14-2016, 11:28 AM
(09-14-2016, 09:37 AM)rayheinrich Wrote:I see where you're coming from. The management of information is different from the information itself. Emotion is part of the information. So I suspect I enjoy the information management, even when that includes emotion management, but I don't experience emotion from the art, and I don't seek any empathy or sympathy with the speaker as I read. I want a poem that makes me think (even if thinking about feelings), but I don't care what the poem tries to make me feel.(09-13-2016, 01:21 PM)UselessBlueprint Wrote: I don't actually care about the emotion of most poetry, just the information management.
I like the "information management" part of it. I truly think the quality of a poem's
information management directly corresponds to the quality of the poem.
BUT...
Information is defined as that which can be communicated. As poetry communicates emotion,
emotion is part of the information that can be managed in a poem. Caring about a poem's
information management clearly involves caring about emotion.
To adjust your words: Caring about a poem's information management clearly involves caring about emotion management as well.
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