03-28-2018, 02:54 AM
I love thinking about art and discussing what works for me and what doesn't as opposed to what works for you and what doesn't. Those discussions are often a revelation for me and have helped develop my own responses to art, pushed me further and made me dig deeper. This applies to my own art and to the art around me.
One of the interesting things, for me, about writing but not publishing poetry is that it is a form that indeed is open-ended. What I think is good enough to stop messing with today may have something I'd like to tweak tomorrow. It's more difficult to do that with more concrete art.
As far as I know this has never been a site for just presenting a finished piece for admiration. I have occasionally seen pieces that seemed too perfect for anyone to have the heart to mess with them but posting them on this site, where readers express their responses in detail, leaves every poem open to suggestions.
Analyzing poems does not preclude feeling them. Different critics tend to discuss different aspects. There is sometimes the rush to comment Wow, I'm knocked out! or That tense confusion is just too much to take! but ideally we all would always take the time to fully experience the poem in all ways before commenting. Personally, my world is not ideal, just good enough,
, that's one of the reasons it's so nice to have multiple responses on each thread.
One of the interesting things, for me, about writing but not publishing poetry is that it is a form that indeed is open-ended. What I think is good enough to stop messing with today may have something I'd like to tweak tomorrow. It's more difficult to do that with more concrete art.
As far as I know this has never been a site for just presenting a finished piece for admiration. I have occasionally seen pieces that seemed too perfect for anyone to have the heart to mess with them but posting them on this site, where readers express their responses in detail, leaves every poem open to suggestions.
Analyzing poems does not preclude feeling them. Different critics tend to discuss different aspects. There is sometimes the rush to comment Wow, I'm knocked out! or That tense confusion is just too much to take! but ideally we all would always take the time to fully experience the poem in all ways before commenting. Personally, my world is not ideal, just good enough,
, that's one of the reasons it's so nice to have multiple responses on each thread.
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