I think we are perhaps, being too literal actually. I think as when you read a poem the matter at hand is rather complex, so it often happens the first approaches to it starts on the most literal level and then, reduces complex intersections with simplified reductions, only as an preliminary posture to then move outward and refine one's apprehensions. The truth is I think there's a gray area, a hazy intersection that may exist between the impulse to articulate ideas one holds about beauty and truth, etc, on the one hand; and the need for poetry to be an end in itself on the other. Clearly, ideas one holds and wants to express can come out in poetry, yet I think the danger is also still there that if poetry is only used to convey some doctrine or other, it may become versified philosophy rather than poetry. Or so I suppose.
Best,
Erik
Last edited by Erik Olson; 10-20-2015 at 01:27 PM.
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