12-17-2018, 02:22 AM
(12-14-2018, 05:10 PM)billy Wrote: reading someone else's feedback and using a point within such feedback in your own is fine. as long as the feedback is to the poem it matters not where it was garnered or how said feedback affected you or your thoughts. personally i try not to read the other feedback but sometimes i do and it often affects how i read the poem. [it's the main reason i don't do it. i do enjoy giving feedback then reading other feedback and seeing i got it completely wrong] it happens more than i care to mention.just gonna note that when starting out on this site, i got dinked for giving more feedback to others' feedback. and when i tried workshopping in the flesh, i also got dinked for the same. it does sort of go back to what crundle, rowens, and this book on the sefer yetzirot i'm currently reading says. it's not that me or prolly crundle don't understand poetry, it's just that it's an extra step to take. reading poetry, like rowens says, is like sex, or getting drunk -- at least good poetry. it should stun you with its beauty, make you, in a sense, euphoric: fill you with Wisdom, the wordless sort of creative energy that emanates from the Will, which needs a second emanation, Understanding, in order to put into new words, to 'understand'. whereas someone else's interpretation should already contain some of that Understanding.