02-08-2016, 10:13 AM
I hear you, rowens. And it is not the same as a mechanic learning a trade. Poetry is so open-ended, in so many ways.
Hearing the readers's responses, the great grace of a site like this, is so wonderful and interesting for just this. It's satisfying when a reader gets it but it's truly illuminating when they get it differently than what I was writing, or thought I was writing. It's lovely to be read by thinking readers who are following their own paths through the poem.
Yes, learning the mechanics is great, useful and fun to advance through, both in writing and reading. As a writer it is good to close doors to ambiguity that lead nowhere, but openings that lead to different paths, and they will change with a reader's own passage of time and experience, are a lovely bonus and part of the fun of it.
Quote:Rowens wrote:
Reading a poem wrongly might open you up to new ideas of your own that you wouldn't have had had you understood what you were reading perfectly and immediately.
Hearing the readers's responses, the great grace of a site like this, is so wonderful and interesting for just this. It's satisfying when a reader gets it but it's truly illuminating when they get it differently than what I was writing, or thought I was writing. It's lovely to be read by thinking readers who are following their own paths through the poem.
Yes, learning the mechanics is great, useful and fun to advance through, both in writing and reading. As a writer it is good to close doors to ambiguity that lead nowhere, but openings that lead to different paths, and they will change with a reader's own passage of time and experience, are a lovely bonus and part of the fun of it.
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