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Originally Posted by Mary Meriam
Most often, I wonder if my poems are actually "about" nothing more than the form I used to write them.
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This sounds a bit like quasi-aesthetic gobbledygook. A poem is made up of language and words. Words mean something. Language carries thought and feeling.
Sometimes, for example, a poet may set out from the start to compose a sonnet. At other times a poet may begin writing some lines and only after the first two or three realize that a sonnet may be in the making.
Saying that a poem is about nothing more than the form used to write it is like saying a building is only about its underlying skeletal framework. Form is a means, not an end in itself.
Perhaps this is a poem:
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Richard