06-21-2019, 10:56 PM
UB
Not to ignore the rest of what you posted, but to comment on the analogy of the painter (visual artist).
The visual artist has tools and has learned techniques to use those. He/she knows how to structure a composition; his art is not static (and I'm differentiating from graphic art, which often is static). The visual art grabs the viewers' eye, and moves it around the canvas in a controlled manner to a definitive ending point. A painter capable of creating art(I'm tempted to use a captial A here lol) can explain how he does this - which compositional elements he used to draw the eye here, make it linger there, and force it stop at the one point which will have the maximum effect for delivering the artist's message.
Should not a poet be able to do the same for his art? To know his craft and be able to explain it?
Not to ignore the rest of what you posted, but to comment on the analogy of the painter (visual artist).
The visual artist has tools and has learned techniques to use those. He/she knows how to structure a composition; his art is not static (and I'm differentiating from graphic art, which often is static). The visual art grabs the viewers' eye, and moves it around the canvas in a controlled manner to a definitive ending point. A painter capable of creating art(I'm tempted to use a captial A here lol) can explain how he does this - which compositional elements he used to draw the eye here, make it linger there, and force it stop at the one point which will have the maximum effect for delivering the artist's message.
Should not a poet be able to do the same for his art? To know his craft and be able to explain it?
There is no escape from metre; there is only mastery. TS Eliot