Re: [acornlive] the purpose of poetry
Michael F. Butchin (acornlive@dublinwriters.org)
Sun, 11 Apr 1999 03:25:45 PDT
Hello, All;
I believe that the function of poetry is to express one's own
emotional experiences, and to provoke an emotional response from your
reader in order to convey the concrete qualities of the object of
which you write (be it person, place, thing, or physical or emotional
experience).
The emotions one wishes to provoke may or may not be "uplifting,"
or "happy," or "joyous." But they ought to be true and sincere.
The idea is to try to bring your reader into experiencing something
in the same way you yourself have done.
Depending on one's skill as a technician, and one's creativiy, this
can be achieved well or poorly.
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