I don't see in picture, so I have to work harder at symbols. They don't resonate with me. I'm a words person, but the sounds of words, the patterns of sounds they make, the rhythms, but not the pretty pictures. It makes poetry harder for me. I think that's why I like a lot of French poetry because it is just reduced to pretty sounds on the first reading, and then there's the process of translation that gives you a puzzle.
So I like Donne because underneath all that alleged metaphysics there's logic and structure and order, but I don't like, say, Marvell because he just maunders on. One's a puzzle to be solved, and the other's just pretty pictures.
You'll notice I said speaker and not author/poet. I'm talking about the narrative voice and not the writer.
I like puzzles. It's what my mind is set up to enjoy. Like chocolate, shoes and blonds.
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Date: 2007-04-19 08:31 am (UTC)So I like Donne because underneath all that alleged metaphysics there's logic and structure and order, but I don't like, say, Marvell because he just maunders on. One's a puzzle to be solved, and the other's just pretty pictures.
You'll notice I said speaker and not author/poet. I'm talking about the narrative voice and not the writer.
I like puzzles. It's what my mind is set up to enjoy. Like chocolate, shoes and blonds.