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leia131I never heard the phrase "art for art's sake" until this year, but now I'm enamoured with it.
It explains how I feel about poetry. Poems aren't meant to be torn word from word and line from line; they're meant to be read (out loud preferably) and enjoyed and mulled over and felt.
That's why poems are exempt from basic ordinary rules of grammar and word usage and sentence structure. They're beyond that.
If you need to analyze every word of a poem to get its meaning, then you've missed the point entirely.
Poems aren't written for anyone or anything other than the poet, (even if you think they are, they really aren't) and they aren't written for any other purpose besides simply to be written; to put into physical form a feeling.
Poems are good simply because they are, or they're bad simply because they are. You like a poem because it hits something in you, and you dislike a poem because it misses the mark. Poetry is the simpliest complicated thing in the world.
No matter what anyone ever says, I will always believe these things.
It explains how I feel about poetry. Poems aren't meant to be torn word from word and line from line; they're meant to be read (out loud preferably) and enjoyed and mulled over and felt.
That's why poems are exempt from basic ordinary rules of grammar and word usage and sentence structure. They're beyond that.
If you need to analyze every word of a poem to get its meaning, then you've missed the point entirely.
Poems aren't written for anyone or anything other than the poet, (even if you think they are, they really aren't) and they aren't written for any other purpose besides simply to be written; to put into physical form a feeling.
Poems are good simply because they are, or they're bad simply because they are. You like a poem because it hits something in you, and you dislike a poem because it misses the mark. Poetry is the simpliest complicated thing in the world.
No matter what anyone ever says, I will always believe these things.
