A 'mineshaft' does love a story! And there is nothing like it when a child
goes down and is either rescued alive or not. People continue to talk about
it for years.
And so goes a good poem - once tender and young - too.
This is called making the best of a romantic trope. I remember when the
poet Jack Gilbert - a total romantic - would say that something had to crack
inside you before you could get a good poem out. I took that as kind of
older poet's means of upping the ante and holding off us young.
I suspect it's life that breaks you, not the poem.
Stephen V
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
> <snip>
> I have no idea why my sometimes dyslexic brain immediately read this as:
> "The writing of a poem is like throwing a child into a mineshaft."
> <snip>
>
> Q's advice to 'murder your darlings' perhaps?
>
> CW
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> 'What's the point of having a language that everybody knows?'
> (Gypsy inhabitant of Barbaraville)
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