01-24-2012, 03:06 AM
(01-23-2012, 11:31 PM)rayheinrich Wrote: "i took em as examples because there was nothing to say otherwise"
will try to be more literal next time. i did add a bit to explain, though,
come to think of it, if we're about poems and all we should be about
interpreting and not wanting everything served up easy. more fun
that way.
"i like the taste insights, personally i think we all carry certain buttons within us that when triggered in a certain sequence make us see beauty or greatness. i think poetry has the ability to hit those hidden buttons."
yes, one of it's specialties; though it's a shotgun, not a rifle most times.
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But you cannot use muddled language to produce an exegesis for another muddle. At some point, you must use speech of the most plain sort. Otherwise, you might as well leave the original muddle to speak for itself.
Of course, I use 'muddle' as short-hand for poetry or other writing, which is ambiguous.
The shot-gun is very true. Music is not good for me: some music is, and the like with poetry, and the other arts. In many cases, I would pay not to be exposed to them. Sometimes, it is a case of 'needs must' -- as when a woman-friend was determined to see, and make me see, an Andy Warhol exhibition, which put me off before I entered, by informing me that it would 'make me think'. I cannot say what it made me think, unfortunately, but it left a deep scar. And she was quite nice too.
