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Date Posted: 15:05:44 10/07/03 Tue
Author: Raphaela
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Subject: Re: Wrote
In reply to: Gray 's message, "Re: Wrote" on 01:29:37 10/07/03 Tue

Gray

There is no need to apologise or justify your work. My intention has always been for Unicorn to be an open forum with no censorship etc - except for certain cases of explicit racism or other prejudices - and I have never had to exercise that right.

Having studied and taught poetry, I was not aware there was such a definition of a 'real' poem. Literature as with many of the other arts is constantly changing and evolving. If a definition were to limit new ways of writing or expression I think that would be a sad reflection on our times and would close our minds to the innovative talents that come our way from time to time.

Whether or not a reader 'likes' or can relate to a certain poem is a different matter and really up to him or her but this does not mean you have to write to please the vast majority.

I agree with what Rafael says and he expresses himself far better than my clumsy ramblings.

Raphaela

>It has come to my attention via comments in another
>forum that this "poem" (as short as it is) is most
>easily interpreted as a condemnation of poetry
>itself... Here is a my response to that...
>
>As often occurs when one writes, the original intent
>may seem obvious to the writer, too obvious, so that
>writer does not see an even more obvious
>interpretation by the reader... until he receives
>comments or similar responses... (yes, one truly
>gifted should be able to anticipate most of those
>situations...)
>
>In a previous poem someone mentioned that a "real"
>poem doesn't self-reference... Having that in mind, I
>thought of this "poem", which not only
>self-references, but attempts to take on the voice of
>the reader who sees a poem which says nothing, really,
>a poem which otherwise has no real content but it's
>own self-reference...
>
>I suspect such has been done before, such a poem has
>been written, with similar intent, likely a number of
>times... but I decided to write this down anyway,
>despite that, to make sure... (; hence, the title:
>"Wrote".
>
>I see the "condemnation of poetry" interpretation,
>now... and that is my fault, of course, not seeing it
>as I wrote it... (elsewhere I received a comment in
>which the reader had decided it was a parody of poetry
>condemnation...) but, well, not in the least was that
>my intent (except a condemnation of this poem
>itself...) A self-condemning poem...
>
>I'm sorry for the implications, particularly if it
>offended those who put so much of their heart and soul
>into their poetry, both here and elsewhere...
>
>-Gray

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Re: Wrote -- Gray Squirrel, 01:17:14 10/08/03 Wed