Re: Re: [acornlive] purpose of poetry

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Conor,

I agree that numbing a reader may in some instances be the point of the piece, and in some instances we require this 'numbness' to be able to accept a certain idea.  (Detach ourselves from it in order for our mind to contemplate the full meaning of it.)

The point I was trying to make, was not that numbness (for want of a better word) is in itself bad, since it is a reaction and that is what we hope to provoke in the reader.  But that if you batter the reader over the head with this feeling (or non-feeling as the case may be) you run the risk of alienating the reader from what you have set out to do.

ie. Make the reader numb enough and soon they *won't* react to any of your work.

Elisa




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