Personal view...
I personally do not find continuous thinking about how I shall
create the next literary piece or poem helpful. I will do some
thinking after the fact, but not very much. And that is related
to the creating of a piece, rather than defining it for others.
I think readers should do some work when reading if the piece
I have written is new in form or function to them. I do not like
to explain or define my for and function. And, I think too much
thinking about how one should create eats into the time for
creating. And, uses a different part of the mind, which, I find,
stops the creative flow.
Theorizing, defending this or that theory, defending my own
position, is like defending my preference for a giraffe over a
hippopotamus. It's defending my own prejudices. Some do
it for teaching and some do it for careerism, I realize, but
the time taken from creating is not worth it. We should stop
defending ourselves for the shape our noses or the shape
of our poems, pieces, etc.
We shouldn't beat a dead horse and theory is a dead horse
whereas the creative piece is the live horse.
As I said, this is a personal view...
Tom
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