Gregory,
I absolutely agree that the poem must be enjoyed by the reader but still the danger lurks of the seductive shift away from the deeper intention of the original in order to satisfy the reader-- but still attributed to the defenceless writer.
Style is so much part of the message. We played an early Toto movie to some rather snobbish friends and all they could see was a coarse slapstick comedy. The narrative wasn't the comedy. It was the dialect and the history behind the body movements. All so difficult to explain.
Janet
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