Agreed with _context_
to which one has to add a question:
_Why is someone writing?_
This is a fundamental question, the very first one I formulate when reading.
All the rest is literature - they say here in Italy, :-) (By which one can
also easily understand to what height literature stands in popular culture.)
Anny Ballardini
http://annyballardini.blogspot.com
http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
The aim of the poet is to awaken emotions in the soul, not to gather
admirers.
Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky
From: "cris cheek" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 12:29 PM
> for me the key word here is context
>
> there is never not a context
>
> the poet needs to consider that
>
> often, with poetry there is more than one context, one more immediately
> foregrounded than others
>
> commissioned work is often moot in that respect and historical
> precedent tells us that patrons (of whatever hue) are an issue but . .
> .
>
> who might and might not be defined as patron might be worth asking
> here, in this context
>
> On 10 Feb 2005, at 10:33, [log in to unmask] wrote:
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> > True or False or Can't Tell - tick one only.
> >
> > If a writer is writing within a situation where he/she is going to be
> > mindful of the impression the writing might have on his/her students,
> > academic colleagues, institutional/workplace superiors, funding bodies
> > etc then such writing is going to be different to writing they might
> > produce in another context.
> >
> > Tim A.
> >
>
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