[New-Poetry] Goetsch's greed

[Halvard Johnson]

I don't think that meaning is something to be extracted from
a poem, as though pulling a tooth. It seems to me that its more
like a collaboration between poet, reader, context, etc. Even
then, it's more variable than fixed.

Hal

"A poet is someone from whom nothing must be taken and
   to whom nothing must be given."
                      --Anna Akhmatova

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On Jul 18, 2007, at 6:59 AM, Bob Grumman wrote:

>
>
> 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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