I had something similar with new ideas while writing my thesis. On a couple
of occasions, there were things that I felt very unsure of asserting, though
they seemed the logical outcome of the argument. By the time I came back to
revise the material later, they seemed more secure.
P
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> Subject: Re: Sapphic shapes
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> Subject: Re: Sapphic shapes
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>
> > Thanks, Jon, Martin, Doug, & Joanna for all the
> > interesting points you make and questions you raise,
> > such as Joanna's "seed of the poem" query in terms of
> > line breaks. I know exactly what you mean by that
> > emerging unit (whether we call it a line, a measure,
> > or even an image) that strives for the shape created
> > by a line break or a space break, in some cases. I
> > once had a talk with Joe Duemer about how
> > uncomfortable we both tend to feel until that shape
> > begins to form itself as a poetic utterance.
> >
>
> Does anyone else find sometimes that a poem is uncomfortable in the skin
of
> what you've termed its poetic utterance? Well, of course we do; but what
> bothers me is that occasionally I can put away a poem that I've had to
> abandon temporarily because it seems so very uncomfortable in its form,
> until I could get a sense of what alteration it needed. And then, when
I've
> come back to it later, it has somehow bedded down to being perfectly at
ease
> with itself.
>
> This worries me. Is it just that I've got used to the voice of it, and am
> therefore unable to see it true? And yet, other people don't seem to find
> anything askew with it. If poems are really snuggling down and making
> themselves comfortable without help, what on earth is the process by which
> this could possibly happen? Has anyone else had this experience, or am I
> deceiving myself?
>
> joanna
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