[Janice D. Soderling]

A Robert Frost quote which I have been thinking about the past few days.

The essentially poetic is "saying one thing and meaning another, saying one thing in terms of another, the pleasures of ulteriority."

I agree, but others may think otherwise. What, for you, is "the essentially poetic"?

[Wintaka]

What, for you, is "the essentially poetic"?

The memorable.

-o-

[Tim Murphy]

Exactly as Colin says.

[Ed Shacklee]

What I can barely grasp, which is inescapable.

[Orwn Acra]

Funs with words.

[Michael Cantor]

The essentially poetic is the poetically essential.

And, wordplay aside, what Frost describes is what I basically try to do in most of my poetry. Head fakes. I don't know if that makes it the essentially poetic element, since I also try to do seven other things involving sound and language and pretty pictures and hints and winks and whispers and such, but it's definitely a contenduh.

[Ann Drysdale]

I'll go with my good friend, the poet Kit Wright.

I like what vamped me
In my youth.
Tune, argument
Colour, truth.

[Janice D. Soderling]

All answers are good answers and no answers can be wrong.

These seem to be from a reader POV or maybe not.

Question: So when you write, the answers given are the values you strive to incorporate in your work?

I think that with the Frost quote in mind, I read his work in a different way that I used to, looking for something deeper than what he actually says.

[R. Nemo Hill]

Looking through.

Nemo

[Roger Slater]

I suspect you were reading it that way all along, Janice. Obviously you didn't think the road not taken was not merely an anecdote about a particular fork in a particular road, nor did you think it was intrinsically interesting to hear about the time that Frost stopped in the woods and somewhat confused his horse in the process.