We Grow Accustomed to the Dark

**hobbes** · 02-27-2005, 08:38 PM

Originally Posted by SnnY

I think the problem with dickinson is that she allows for several interpretations, quite possibly by intention, I've seen it before. I'm not saying you are wrong tho', but I think that your interpretation is only one of several possible. (@hobbes)

Maybe

That is why I don't like poetry. Vague insinuations whose true meaning is only fully known to the author.

I prefer expressing myself clearly like a swift kick in the balls, rather than fuzzy metaphors.

**Snee** · 02-27-2005, 08:44 PM

Well, I feel the same about a lot of poetry, but some of it just speaks volumes more than plain text could.

What spoils poetry for a lot of people are those assigments, like this one rossco has been given, where you have to read it.

It won't work if you are forced into it

and even worse are the times when the lecturer or teacher has already decided that there's only one way to look at it, and that if you find something new they can't see then you must be wrong.

**hobbes** · 02-27-2005, 08:47 PM

Originally Posted by SnnY

Well, I feel the same about a lot of poetry, but some of it just speaks volumes more than plain text could.

What spoils poetry for a lot of people are those assigments, like this one rossco has been given, where you have to read it.

It won't work if you are forced into it

and even worse are the times when the lecturer or teacher has already decided that there's only one way to look at it, and that if you find something new they can't see then you must be wrong.

Well said.

**Skiz** · 02-27-2005, 08:49 PM

An evening of the brain. This has something to do with being alone and/or thinking to oneself, and and no stars come out within means something like the author or person in question had no thoughts or ideas.

**tesco** · 02-27-2005, 08:51 PM

Originally Posted by SnnY

Well, I feel the same about a lot of poetry, but some of it just speaks volumes more than plain text could.

What spoils poetry for a lot of people are those assigments, like this one rossco has been given, where you have to read it.

It won't work if you are forced into it

and even worse are the times when the lecturer or teacher has already decided that there's only one way to look at it, and that if you find something new they can't see then you must be wrong.

ya, i sort of agree, but if I wasn't given an assignment i doubt i'd have read it at all.

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