09-14-2016, 06:50 PM
(09-14-2016, 11:28 AM)UselessBlueprint 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.
To adjust your words: Caring about a poem's information management clearly involves caring about emotion management as well.
That makes sense.
"but I don't experience emotion from the art"
If you "like" or "don't like" the art, you're experiencing emotion engendered by the art.
"I don't seek any empathy or sympathy with the speaker as I read."
You may not seek it, but doesn't it happen anyway?
Maybe you mean that you don't like to feel empathy or sympathy with the speaker?
"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."
I love reading poems that make me think, and I try quite hard to write them as well.
I also love poems that inspire my emotions, but don't like ones that try poorly or falsely.
Are you indifferent to your own emotions as well? Or just about manipulation from the outside?
Ray
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