04-12-2025, 04:41 AM
And in the last four lines of the poem, I shatter the syntax very subtly.
A similar trick I pulled in my Enid poem, where I had the rhythm going so fast and the word choice so smooth in one or two of the stanzas that it passes by and is only caught subconsciously like dream logic.
Whether the dream logic meaning affects other readers the same way it does me is another question. Though I was awake and perfectly sober and aware of the license I was taking at the time.
A similar trick I pulled in my Enid poem, where I had the rhythm going so fast and the word choice so smooth in one or two of the stanzas that it passes by and is only caught subconsciously like dream logic.
Whether the dream logic meaning affects other readers the same way it does me is another question. Though I was awake and perfectly sober and aware of the license I was taking at the time.