Tuesday Morning Cantos Assignment Forum

I can see how a writer would be better off to have more than one way for a reader to appreciate his/her work.

Having written that (and believing it), I paused for a bit here. I began thinking of using a variety of images to try to create a solid feel to a piece. But then, on an international level, all of those images could be misconstrued.

I thought of appreciating a poem based on its mechanics and form - but that would be like appreciating a piece of architecture based on the straightness of the door hinges or how nails were hammered to create a stury structure..... good in it's own right, but fairly boring and missing the overall point of the structure.

So, if the ideas behind our images are misinterpreted, what's left, I ask myself as I write this. In music, we have the overal feel of the instruments to help us convey our feelings. In poetry we lose that as well - or do we? I think that the feeling and flow of the words themselves can convey our feelings. Can't they? We could write in a sing-song style. We could write with purposeful stops and breaks. We could create a flow and then stop it.

These are just some ideas I had. I didn't censor my thoughts on this at all. I just realized we are in week 5, and I have preciouslittle time left to learn from all of you, so I'm just looking for guidance - tell me I might have something here, or that I'm "wrong" - or just give my your ideas.

This is all so new and interesting to me!
Thanks!
Beckie



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