Posted by kid_A on February 20, 2002, at 10:57:49
In reply to decent work, posted by trouble on February 20, 2002, at 6:49:04
trouble,
ive been kicking around the idea of finding other poets to get into some kind of workshop with, mostly though i've been wary of this probably for some of the same reasons you are...i have no real problems discussing other people's work or my own for that matter, the problem with some poetry is that it only seems to have meaning for the author, words are chosen not for metaphor or meaning but rather for tone...
I try my best not to slip into that trap but I have been guilty of it before... There is an overal structural meaning to my poetry, if sometimes the references are a bit oblique...
i've given some of my poetry to my psychologist, whom i haven't seen lately, yet he hasn't discussed it with me, god knows what he thinks about a poem i gave him which focused on the symbolism of rockets and flowers...
So really, to answer your question, i dont think it's out of bounds in the least to discuss works of poetry on this board... in as much as its valid to post poetry, especially since the majority of the work may deal with subjects familiar to the other readers.
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