thanks to all who responded to my spatial nature of poetry enquiries, i'm
reading 'the poetics of space', gaston bauchelard, at the moment, great
stuff about the of the moment poetic experience, the non-cognitive,
pre-thought response to a word, a line, a poem, which makes it a poetic
moment.
this indeed is one kind of space that poetry happens.
even though i might not agree with his 'reverberation of the soul'
explanation, the reverberation of the psyche, as the poetic moment makes
sense.
there are other spaces that the reader/user of poetry creates with the poem.
there is a cognitive space, where the poem develops an argument and
requires the user to process the information they are receiving.
there is nostalgic or a recalling-of-memory space, which some poems seem to
arouse.
and there is a pictorial space, or imagery, whether single scene,
character, or panorama, which the user and poem create.
i wonder are there any other spaces, metaphorically internal spaces, that
the listener/reader/interactor and poem collaborate to create?
and seeing as this list has so many rural romantics, perhaps someone can
try to explain why so much contemporary australian poetry, in particular,
is still so tied to landscape type poetry?
regards
a poet
is a poet
is a poet is a poet
komninos
poet
komninos's cyberpoetry site http://student.uq.edu.au/~s271502
cyberpoet@slv site http://www.experimedia.vic.gov.au/cyberpoet/
komninos zervos, tel. +61 7 5552 8872
lecturer in cyberStudies,
school of arts,
gold coast campus,
griffith university,
pmb 50, gold coast mail centre
queensland, 9726
australia.
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