03-07-2012, 11:15 AM
"but no more so than when I read most of the poetry written by others here without having a damn clue what you are all writing about."
My question would be, if that is what you thought, why would you emulate it? Poetry is not meant to be written in a vague and obscure way, simply for the sake of being vague and obscure. Sometimes poetry appears that way because of the difficulty of the concept being dealt with, and the lack in the writer of the skills necessary to make those concepts clear. I know one of the pieces to which you refer, and it was probably an error to give it a pass as we did. I thought about critiquing it further, but the author was so aggressive in defending it, I didn't see the point. So even when we appear to give something a pass, though it makes no sense at all, it may simply be a case of seeing no point in doing so. So it is like, "OK, whatever".
Also, please feel free to point out anytime I write something that appears pointless or senseless. I can only speak for myself, but I am not here to pretend to depth through being obscure. If what I write is not clear, then I have failed, and that is on me, not the reader.
Dale
My question would be, if that is what you thought, why would you emulate it? Poetry is not meant to be written in a vague and obscure way, simply for the sake of being vague and obscure. Sometimes poetry appears that way because of the difficulty of the concept being dealt with, and the lack in the writer of the skills necessary to make those concepts clear. I know one of the pieces to which you refer, and it was probably an error to give it a pass as we did. I thought about critiquing it further, but the author was so aggressive in defending it, I didn't see the point. So even when we appear to give something a pass, though it makes no sense at all, it may simply be a case of seeing no point in doing so. So it is like, "OK, whatever".
Also, please feel free to point out anytime I write something that appears pointless or senseless. I can only speak for myself, but I am not here to pretend to depth through being obscure. If what I write is not clear, then I have failed, and that is on me, not the reader.
Dale
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.