07-13-2016, 06:20 PM
Poetry, movies, painting, novels, etc aren't all non-fiction. They can be, but it doesn't make them any better or any worse.
I'd much rather read or watch or experience an interesting thing that someone made up, than a mundane thing that has actually happened.
It doesn't matter if what was written was "true" for the writer. It matters if it becomes true for the person reading the poem. Often, I write poems where the core idea or emotion is based on something I've experienced, but the images/words used to express the idea are things I find more interesting than what I've actually experienced. Basically, I agree with what the person you quoted says.
A metaphor is very rarely dictionarily "true", yet it's used incredibly frequently in poetry, because it can make a simple idea more interesting.
I'd much rather read or watch or experience an interesting thing that someone made up, than a mundane thing that has actually happened.
It doesn't matter if what was written was "true" for the writer. It matters if it becomes true for the person reading the poem. Often, I write poems where the core idea or emotion is based on something I've experienced, but the images/words used to express the idea are things I find more interesting than what I've actually experienced. Basically, I agree with what the person you quoted says.
A metaphor is very rarely dictionarily "true", yet it's used incredibly frequently in poetry, because it can make a simple idea more interesting.