03-04-2015, 08:48 PM
This morning I'm anti-footnote. Let me get there through the poem or let me research if I care to, but don't disrupt my read with what you haven't said in the poem, and if it's so important put it in.
In the poem in question plenty of clues were given, I got the yellow powder because sulphur had just been mentioned. Salad Blues I guess are potatoes because of the sighted slivers, eyes.
The black turns white thing I couldn't get except for it being cleaning fluid which was enough for me. If it wasn't google has the advantage over a dictionary in that I could have tried "greenhouse cleaner, black white". Maybe I would have gotten there, maybe not, but in this case it did not stop my read.
I find that if the structure and language and metaphor interest me enough I will read through what I don't understand and if it never comes together on it's own I'll research, which I enjoy so that's a bonus.
If the poem hasn't grabbed me enough to care, at the second or third thing I don't understand I just move on, unless it's here and I feel some obligation to the poet that I don't feel when reading elsewhere.
So you've got the title and the poem, IMO leave the explanations out. I have never really thought about this before so my mind may change.
In the poem in question plenty of clues were given, I got the yellow powder because sulphur had just been mentioned. Salad Blues I guess are potatoes because of the sighted slivers, eyes.
The black turns white thing I couldn't get except for it being cleaning fluid which was enough for me. If it wasn't google has the advantage over a dictionary in that I could have tried "greenhouse cleaner, black white". Maybe I would have gotten there, maybe not, but in this case it did not stop my read.
I find that if the structure and language and metaphor interest me enough I will read through what I don't understand and if it never comes together on it's own I'll research, which I enjoy so that's a bonus.
If the poem hasn't grabbed me enough to care, at the second or third thing I don't understand I just move on, unless it's here and I feel some obligation to the poet that I don't feel when reading elsewhere.
So you've got the title and the poem, IMO leave the explanations out. I have never really thought about this before so my mind may change.
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