Thank you Douglas, how could I know... From: "Douglas Barbour" > Well Anni, your piece got me to click to your webpage, so it definitely had > some effect. and I also need some tangible references, something which keeps me reading, i.e. connected to my experience and research, otherwise I just look for something else, there is so much that I still have to read... > But as for whether or not I really need to 'understand' what a poem is > saying, well, in its way, that quote from Frost answered that one. care, anny