Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Do you deliberately flaunt the reader's expectations?

Thank you for expanding ever so slightly on what I said in response to your previous question. Yes, poetry contains some subset of these elements always, and it is the decision of the poet which ones are to be employed, in what way they are to be employed, and for what end. Even poetry without "conventional" structure -- stanzas, line breaks, etc. -- uses language in a formalized way. The enjoyment (for me at least) in writing poetry is that I must simultaneously satisfy several constraints, perform several tasks if you will, all in an engaging way. If reading poetry results in moments of heightened consciousness, then surely writing does also, indeed more so... do you agree?

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