Falling in love with the music
I crossed the "100 hours of poetry" threshold yesterday morning and thought back briefly over what I had learned or how far I had come in just 6 weeks. I can make a couple of observations:
- Poems and poets that were hard to connect with seem to open up to me more. I am sure this is a result of both closer, more attentive reading and an understanding of the larger historical/technical context in which they sit.
- Looking back at the poems I loved before undertaking this plan, it was their music that I first fell in love with. By music I mean not only rhyme, but rhythm, pacing, the melody of grouped sounds.
Two and Two
are rather blue
which logically makes no sense, but is more memorable, gains a meaning that doesn't exist in
Two and Two
are rather green
This is a very simple example and it focuses just on rhyme. But I did think how in some cases memorable music is enough to carry a poem for me. The poet's meaning/intent/themes (which I may struggle to decipher for years) is of less importance.
Your thoughts?
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