04-23-2012, 04:45 PM
"i'm biased towards grammatical sentences in poems" 
Don't you know Geoff, everything is just opinion, and while that may be yours it is still no more valid than those who think grammar inhibits creativity, despite the fact that it has evolved over hundreds of years to create a system of symbolic representation that communicates the writer's intended meaning as clearly as possible...after all, clarity is just another hindrance to creativity, and surely no one writes with the idea in mind that the reader should as clearly as possible understand what the writer was trying to communicate. What a provincial attitude, only the severely egoistic would think it is important that they, as the writer, should be understood.
Evidently, such a person does not understand that a poem is an always evolving, only coming into being when it interacts in a pseudo symbiotic relationship with the reader (a literary gestalt, if you will, giving the sad skeleton flesh and bones), and clear communication by the writer is not only, not a consideration, or something to be desired, but it is something to be avoided altogether (why the very idea is completely repugnant to the sophisticated mind), least it contaminate the poem. [Image: http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-a...5371_n.jpg]
Dale
Don't you know Geoff, everything is just opinion, and while that may be yours it is still no more valid than those who think grammar inhibits creativity, despite the fact that it has evolved over hundreds of years to create a system of symbolic representation that communicates the writer's intended meaning as clearly as possible...after all, clarity is just another hindrance to creativity, and surely no one writes with the idea in mind that the reader should as clearly as possible understand what the writer was trying to communicate. What a provincial attitude, only the severely egoistic would think it is important that they, as the writer, should be understood.
Evidently, such a person does not understand that a poem is an always evolving, only coming into being when it interacts in a pseudo symbiotic relationship with the reader (a literary gestalt, if you will, giving the sad skeleton flesh and bones), and clear communication by the writer is not only, not a consideration, or something to be desired, but it is something to be avoided altogether (why the very idea is completely repugnant to the sophisticated mind), least it contaminate the poem. [Image: http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-a...5371_n.jpg]
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.