Intention and Critique

[Lizzie]

Critique isn't about you. There doesn't need to be room for you, necessarily.

Valid point.

I'm speaking from the assumption that critique is sharing one's experience of the poem, what landed and what didn't. That's why I said what I did. I think we have different ideas of what critique should be.

My assertion is that, if there's no intention of being understood, then there's no communal aspect to the poem and there's no reason for it to be here.

Additionally, if there's no effort made to affect the poem to increase its intelligibility to others, then the author is assuming that all minds are like theirs, and this is a fundamental negation of the sparateness and individuality of the other.

There should be room for you too, Death.