09-09-2013, 11:08 AM
(09-09-2013, 11:00 AM)billy Wrote: while i agree in general with everything said. i was perturbed by #7 isn't there a point where the reader is creating the poetry and not the poet. shouldn't there be just enough ambiguity to make the reader think or have something work on more that 1 level but not so much as to cloud the intent of the poet?I agree with you completely, it is a bit of a balancing act, but that is part of the fun isn't it? Still, you have to point it out, otherwise you are a bad excuse for a tour guide, right?
"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." - Paul Dirac (1902 - 1984)