Re your last sentence: I depend on my readers to tell
me what my poems mean. And if I start a poem knowing
too much about what I want to do with it, it
inevitably leads to the "intentional fallacy"--and a
bad poem.
Candice
--- Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 3/31/07, kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> > this is really awesome. "hobgoblins", "hymns of
> elimination", "It was
> > a sounding grotto"
>
> "It was a sounding grotto" is Keats, from Endymion.
> The idea was to
> put the etymological connection between grottoes and
> the grotesque
> into play.
>
> > , & the last line, &c. what's it about though?
>
> My ambition was to pull together all sorts of very
> disparate things -
> if I listed them here, it would seem wildly
> pretentious. Actually I'm
> rather interested in finding out what other people
> think it's about.
>
> Dominic
>
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