I've never been a big poetry fan. Mainly because of the broad spectrum of meanings something could carry. Authors/ poets write pretty much whatever they feel like, and we get graded on "translating" what we thought, or think they meant.
How can this be wrong or right, unless the teacher him/herself was the original poet. Then if thats the case, maybe the teacher isn't so good of a poet if no one understood their poetry (LOL)
No but Ive been thinking about this for a while, and for poetry to be as objective in meanings of translations, this really throws me for a loop sometimes.
for example
in ted Hughes hawk roosting, people say he was describing a dictator, and possibly a sniper, and all kinds of cool stuff. And for the sake of writing an intriguing paper, of course I went that route to write the paper, but ted hughes himself said the poem was just about a hawk.
well then why do we break our braid trying to decode something that is already decoded? or is that what poetry is? making something out of nothing? or finding the something in the something and making something from that.
i guess if poets wrote clear they would be book authors or something...
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