11-27-2012, 10:31 AM
Hedonism, writing poems for no audience, the issue of supply and demand in relation to poetry, the point of poetry in my life being nothing more than pleasure. These are the things I'm responding to by talking about pain and troubles. No matter how I dress it up, saying everything is poetry makes me a hedonist, despite how little pleasure I get out of it or anything else. My philosophy of poetry is nothing but self gratification. I'm responding to this.
I'm not arguing with you, Billy. I'm not telling you about pain for the sake of trying to make anyone say or think anything about pain except in relation to the subjects above. Everyone else here has said that poetry doesn't need to have a point. And nobody's arguing with that in this thread.
But, I did give a point to poetry. And that point was called hedonistic, and that is what I'm responding to. I'm not talking about pain for the sake of talking about pain. In my first two posts, I gave my point that pain motivated my poetry in many ways. Since then I've been talking about pain for the purpose of showing how I don't see anything hedonistic about it.
I'm not arguing with you, Billy. I'm not telling you about pain for the sake of trying to make anyone say or think anything about pain except in relation to the subjects above. Everyone else here has said that poetry doesn't need to have a point. And nobody's arguing with that in this thread.
But, I did give a point to poetry. And that point was called hedonistic, and that is what I'm responding to. I'm not talking about pain for the sake of talking about pain. In my first two posts, I gave my point that pain motivated my poetry in many ways. Since then I've been talking about pain for the purpose of showing how I don't see anything hedonistic about it.