Kent, I think you're joshing, but anyway. . .
how could there be a way to answer these questions? A work of art, as far
as I can see, is an intellectual-emotional achievement or synthesis -
there's no material "substance" or brain-state behind, or exuding, poems,
about which you can generalize. It's an imaginative form or construction,
analogous or metaphorical to nature or the real world, which sometimes sets
aside the dichotomies of subject/object, inner/outer, reason/imagination,
etc. But you won't find its sources in any one (paraphraseable) state of
mind. Part of the achievement of a real poem is that it's not subject to
dissection, or derivative of some prior more substantial reality of any kind.
Henry
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