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I didn't mean it was NEVER about the author's meaning. The poets meaning is what drives the author to write the poem in the first place. What I'm saying, or trying to say rather, is that what the author means to say is rarely the same meaning that the reader comes away with. It's that perception that gives a poem meaning to the reader.
Poetry (which, as an English major, I understand more thoroughly than you, no doubt) isn't one thing or another. It's a lot of things. "Poetry is what gets lost in translation." Robert Frost said that. At its core, for me, it's to evoke emotions from the reader. But all good poetry will have different meanings to different people, like aesthetics. A poem can never be fully understood, the art is too personal, because if it is, then it ceases to become a poem.
Well, you certainly know nothing about me, that's for sure.
The rest is just hilarious. I'm replacing every "your" with "my" and every "you are" with "I am" and I'm posting it in any sort of "About Me" section I can.
Poetry (which, as an English major, I understand more thoroughly than you, no doubt) isn't one thing or another. It's a lot of things. "Poetry is what gets lost in translation." Robert Frost said that. At its core, for me, it's to evoke emotions from the reader. But all good poetry will have different meanings to different people, like aesthetics. A poem can never be fully understood, the art is too personal, because if it is, then it ceases to become a poem.
Well, you certainly know nothing about me, that's for sure.
The rest is just hilarious. I'm replacing every "your" with "my" and every "you are" with "I am" and I'm posting it in any sort of "About Me" section I can.