Author or Editor: John Redmond
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
Published: 2006
Pages: 154
Size: 0.9MB
What is poetry? This seems like a good place to start. There is a word, ‘poetry’, so there must be – must there not? – something to which that word refers. When we sit down to write a poem we may think, now, before I go any further I need to have a clear picture of what poetry is. And once we have formed that picture, we may think, naturally enough, that any poem we construct should conform to it. While this line of thinking may seem clear and good, I think that it is misguided. I suggest that the question What is poetry? is an unhelpful one, especially for writers, and that there are two reasons for this. First, the question tempts us to think it has a definitive answer – it hasn’t. Second, and more dangerously, it tempts us to think that it is but a step from knowing what poetry really is to writing real poetry.
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