I agree with Anny that this response was interesting & thoughtful,
Kasper, and found your comments on your own approach intriguing.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by detached. I would tend to use the
term 'abstract' perhaps.
I do feel, in my own case, that the lyric 'I' can itself be a kind of
dodge, or at least that it carries a lot of cultural baggage that might
force the poem into certain responses....
But the result, in a poem where the 'I' doesn't appear, need not be
'detached,' & I also recognize that my desire to avoid the 'I' is mine,
& read a lot of poems in which the poet uses the "I" brilliantly, so
it's my problem, not poetry's or other poets'....
Anyway, it's not a bad thing to be thinking about the theory...
Doug
On 4-Jun-07, at 1:40 AM, kasper salonen wrote:
> my own writing has a way of being rather detached, & I think this has
> to do with my conception of poetry in general AS somewhat detached.
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