01-20-2014, 12:34 PM
Collins seems to have had a bit of a thing for demystifying poetry -- but I tend to feel he went too far with that, and ended up dumbing it way down. You don't have to beat your audience over the head with a meaning, you don't have to use blatantly obvious metaphors and it doesn't matter if the reader doesn't get it first go.
He might not have meant this, but that seems to be where people have taken it.
He might not have meant this, but that seems to be where people have taken it.
It could be worse