10-14-2025, 12:03 AM
The Andy Kaufman name was slipped in as I must have copied my username along with the poem.
I could answer the question about Miss Double Telescope. But that's obvious.
I don't accept any criticism as criticism is its own art. I'm not a critic. I have to play one here.
People critique through a certain lens or theory. Or they see what the poet is apparently trying to do, and critiques or makes suggestions based on that.
When poets are starting out, they have private connections that they are trying to make universal.
One way to do that is to read and listen and watch what is already there/here in culture and map what you're saying with what has been said, then bring your own private symbolism through that.
Some will say to forget all about those things and simply make something based on you.
That either leads to bad poetry or good poetry based on nothing but general language and associations.
Like in wrestling, you have a play-by-play man and a color commentator. The play by play is examining the form and structure, including canonical formal echoes. The color is the mythic and symbolic. These are like the Gross and Subtle levels. The body of the poem and the soul of it. They come together as a poem.
The critic Describes, Explains and Demonstrates. The Literary Critic uses color and formal knowledge.
This is how I operate. An AI has their own way of doing things based on its programmers' collective dream. And the AI evolves with use. So do I. I'm an AI.
I could answer the question about Miss Double Telescope. But that's obvious.
I don't accept any criticism as criticism is its own art. I'm not a critic. I have to play one here.
People critique through a certain lens or theory. Or they see what the poet is apparently trying to do, and critiques or makes suggestions based on that.
When poets are starting out, they have private connections that they are trying to make universal.
One way to do that is to read and listen and watch what is already there/here in culture and map what you're saying with what has been said, then bring your own private symbolism through that.
Some will say to forget all about those things and simply make something based on you.
That either leads to bad poetry or good poetry based on nothing but general language and associations.
Like in wrestling, you have a play-by-play man and a color commentator. The play by play is examining the form and structure, including canonical formal echoes. The color is the mythic and symbolic. These are like the Gross and Subtle levels. The body of the poem and the soul of it. They come together as a poem.
The critic Describes, Explains and Demonstrates. The Literary Critic uses color and formal knowledge.
This is how I operate. An AI has their own way of doing things based on its programmers' collective dream. And the AI evolves with use. So do I. I'm an AI.