10-10-2017, 11:41 AM
So, I got a comment on one of my poems that I find interesting and puzzling, so I thought I'd throw it out for discussion and hopefully learn something.
Here's the comment: "If you make the "form" of a poem part of the whole you have already stamped authorship all over it...not a problem in 3rd person writing but in 1st person it becomes of import. Sticking with this theme, the 1st person write appears to limit the character..."
The subject of discussion was "authorial intrusion."
I don't understand what's wrong with writing a poem in a form in the first person. Haven't people been doing that since....always?
Here's the comment: "If you make the "form" of a poem part of the whole you have already stamped authorship all over it...not a problem in 3rd person writing but in 1st person it becomes of import. Sticking with this theme, the 1st person write appears to limit the character..."
The subject of discussion was "authorial intrusion."
I don't understand what's wrong with writing a poem in a form in the first person. Haven't people been doing that since....always?