tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759353.post115922321597098967..comments2023-08-29T02:42:23.063-05:00Comments on ¡Bemsha SWING!: Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759353.post-1159272910526546012006-09-26T07:15:00.000-05:002006-09-26T07:15:00.000-05:00I'm teaching an intro cw course right now & when t...I'm teaching an intro cw course right now & when they write poems, most students want to jump right to the symbolic, or what they understand to be the symbolic, w/o having established any ground of reality in the poem (no matter how fantastical). I like poems that have a ground of reality that the poem then pulls out from under the reader. Sometimes the fall is just like going over a dip in the road--that feeling in the stomach--but sometimes it's like being shoved off a tall building & only discovering at the last second that you have wings. Or the poem has wings.Joseph Duemerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07650314132179290321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759353.post-1159235041406046232006-09-25T20:44:00.000-05:002006-09-25T20:44:00.000-05:00The invitation to come back results from a delight...The invitation to come back results from a delightful or enlivening (or . . . ) experience that is unique to that particular poem. That's what poetry does. It provides an experience. It makes experiences happen. "Communication" is part of that experience, probably usually. If people need "communication" to be the most important part of the poem experience, bully for them, to quote (implicatively) F O'H.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07000424514491809383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759353.post-1159229801120096762006-09-25T19:16:00.000-05:002006-09-25T19:16:00.000-05:00Good point. I love those sorts of works too. Isn...Good point. I love those sorts of works too. Isn't the invitation to come back a soupçon that you don't QUITE understand yet, that the work hoids something in reserve?Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759353.post-1159228392385732792006-09-25T18:53:00.000-05:002006-09-25T18:53:00.000-05:00I prefer the veil of accessibilty. Poems or other...I prefer the veil of accessibilty. Poems or other literary works that may appear accessible or simple on first read but invite you back (only to discover that the work isn't simple or that accessible at all).C. Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17270640200393742125noreply@blogger.com