This is a small poetry club that started as a poetry email exchange between two friends. Our goal is to read a poem everyday, and this blog is one way to help keep us accountable. There is only one valid rule in poetry club: there are no rules in poetry club. Read any poem, in any order, with any or no interactions. You decide. We only suggest you read poetry!
I disagree with the adverb "even" at the beginning of the poem; it's useless. It defeats the purpose and simplicity of the tone....it cheapens it. Like the reader suspects there should be more. "the silence has a story to tell you." is strong enough to stand alone...the use of adverb "just" is prevalent. The Silence becomes the protagonist and listening the hero.
I also think we, as readers, are highly swayed by the imagery behind the poem. Is this fair? Can we, indeed, change its meaning? Yes. Absolutely. I would suggest we remove imagery from the poems unless it is purposed by the author themselves.
I was just thinking about this in regards to book covers as well. The illustrators and the authors' ideas...I think that is why my mom always loved Jan Brett as a children's story author- she authors and illustrates them both.
But then again, these images are so powerful. Tolkien illustrated his first works- and let's see, for a lookup who else has..:
Short and sweet.
ReplyDeleteNothing ground breaking, but true. How silence or nothing can say or be so much more than so called nothing.
I disagree with the adverb "even" at the beginning of the poem; it's useless. It defeats the purpose and simplicity of the tone....it cheapens it. Like the reader suspects there should be more. "the silence has a story to tell you." is strong enough to stand alone...the use of adverb "just" is prevalent. The Silence becomes the protagonist and listening the hero.
ReplyDeleteI also think we, as readers, are highly swayed by the imagery behind the poem. Is this fair? Can we, indeed, change its meaning? Yes. Absolutely. I would suggest we remove imagery from the poems unless it is purposed by the author themselves.
DeleteI was just thinking about this in regards to book covers as well. The illustrators and the authors' ideas...I think that is why my mom always loved Jan Brett as a children's story author- she authors and illustrates them both.
But then again, these images are so powerful. Tolkien illustrated his first works- and let's see, for a lookup who else has..:
http://www.paperclipsmagazine.com/10-literary-authors-who-illustrate-their-own-work/
The adverb "even" is there because this is a haiku. All ten of the "How to Listen" poems in Woodson's Brown Girl Dreaming are haiku.
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