[acornlive] purpose of poetry
Charles Carper (acornlive@dublinwriters.org)
Sun, 11 Apr 1999 22:13:16 -0500
to Conor
Your point is well taken and for the most part I would agree with you.
It is a big task to get someone to stand in two places at once. But
sometimes it happens. Though it is perhaps rare, there have been poems
that have brought me here. (I think of Atwood's "Variation on the Word
Sleep.") I think where your challenge to this holds the most weight
would be if we find ourselves brought into a place of conflicting
feeling by a poem, its effect in eliciting such feelings (and intensity)
would be limited. Do you concur?
While on intensity (and since it has been brought up)....some of the
best stuff I've read celebrates the wonderfully mundane and simple.
Chuck.
*==================*==================*
Acorn Live Literary Mailing list
The Dublin Writers' Workshop
***
For list issues, contact: listmaster@dublinwriters.org
To unsubscribe use the form at:
http://www.dublinwriters.org/acornlive/