[New-Poetry] Goetsch's greed

[Bob Grumman]

  But the frustration resides in viewing the poem
  as something requiring a solution.


  Hal

  As opposed to what?  Looking at it and going, "Goo Goo?"  Any artwork HAS to contain some meaning that an engagent needs to extract to enjoy.  It can be any kind of meaning, not just a scientific meaning. If you want to use some other word than "solve" to call the act of extracting meaning from a poem, fine--but it's still a form of solving. 

  As for a poem being in part or wholly a puzzle, I don't follow Sam's point.  To me, he's just saying that the device of puzzle in a poem, if misused, is a bad thing.  Of course.  So is metaphor or any other device.  
   
  --Bob G.
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