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This late reflection primarily focuses on my experience with
the Deutsch book, which to be quite honest only reinforces my distaste for
picking apart and analyzing poetry. For
some time, although I enjoy poetry, and I do enjoy seeking further understanding
and interpretations from conversations in class, I do not like and rather
almost detest picking apart scheme, structure, and the more formal elements
that seem to take away from the enjoyment of the work. Now, I understand this is my academic opinion
of course, and speak only for myself, but many of the more formal elements
simply break down a poem into aspects that, for me, take away a more open
reading of poetry, allowing it to be interpreted different as many will
interpret works in their own way.
Of the many different terms in Deutsch’s book, I only know a
handful out of the entire alphabetized compilation of different literary terms. It was quite aggravating. How does Deutsch, or any other academically
designated individual, know what the intent of the author was, or rather each
and every interpreted intention by the author.
Why is it that each poem ever created must have a label as to structure
or rhyme meter, what is the obsession as a society that everything must be
labeled and every single work must fit into a specific box of style or
time. I wonder if there ever was an
author, artist, or poet, who said “no, I am not a post-modern, just because I
was born in this decade and someone perceived what they believe as a contemporary and
classified sense of style, does not mean I belong in that classification.” I know I would.
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