http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ebb.and.flow900/Philosophy and Criticism hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ebb.and.flow900/317837Bend but do not break the reed. The pun is plain, but the reader must explain meaning because the flight plan isn’t always easy to follow. Interpreting a “read” takes a special insight into authorial intent. Due to intentional ambiguity, it isn’t always clear. Interpretive strategies depend upon...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ebb.and.flow900/251691Give me hunger, O you gods that sit and give The world its orders. Give me hunger, pain and want, Shut me out with shame and failure From your doors of gold and fame, Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger! But leave me a little love, A voice to speak to me in the day end, A hand to touch me in...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ebb.and.flow900/152130EMMA: Yes, I though later about my statement and realized it was not sufficient to define poetry vs prose as many writer consciously manipulate the reader to arouse some effect. Given many writers manipulate the reader, may they not be intentionally hiding some truth for disclosure at a later...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ebb.and.flow900/116211SARAVANA: "With respect to the differences between poetry and prose, we perhaps hold slightly divergent perspectives. Your contention that poetry is merely ‘self-conscious’ prose more particular about the effect it might have on the reader (or writer) is true as far as it goes, but I would...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ebb.and.flow900/109292EMMA: On the difference between verse and prose it is clearly true, as you have so perceptively stated, that the metrical component allows for differentiation between the two. With respect to the differences between poetry and prose, we perhaps hold slightly divergent perspectives. Your...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ebb.and.flow900/108197SARAVANA: I am interested in your views on the difference between verse and prose, as well as the reason you attribute an importance to the "meaning" of a poem. On the first, I think verse is easy to distinguish from prose, as verse has a metric. You may have meant the difference between poetry...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ebb.and.flow900/107860Emma: Towards Poetic Aestheticism: Some considerations Why do we call a given grouping of words “poetry”? Why does poetry arouse “aesthetic imagination”? Why does it produce pleasure in a receptive reader? We must examine the personal experience of poetry, and when we do we may ultimately...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ebb.and.flow900/71496In one of her early poems, “Journey Toward the Stars” Ariala writes about “fireflies frolicking like fairies”. The vitality of her creative imagination and energy is evident in this alliterative phrase. What also comes through is the energy of her spirit. She ends the poem by saying the “black...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ebb.and.flow900/71468T.S. Eliot, a poet whom I admire greatly, is someone whom I nevertheless disagree with passionately when it comes to articulating a philosophy of poetry. He wrote, and I quote: "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an...