I love how you describe poets and poetry in itself - "Poets sprint ahead, indifferent to whether the reader is keeping pace with their metaphors, literary choices, or overall intended meaning."
I think that's why poetry is so fun to read for me as my brain gets disjointed in the process of it, every line, verse, word will cut, reassemble, entangle thoughts and images I can already have in mind. Sometimes, it takes me where the poet maybe wants to take us, sometimes it doesn't but it will take me somewhere else. The end result is the same, we feel. A lot. And even if in the moment we feel nothing at the sight of words I realised it comes back at crucial moments.
You’re so right when you mentioned that poetry almost scrambles your brain. That’s such a good way to put it — it does that so fast and then reorders it, almost, and then leaves you kind of dazed until you become used to the new shape of things. I’m learning to love that process, not only as a reader but as a writer as well. Be prepared to see me in your WhatsApp messages asking for poetry collection recommendations throughout the whole year lmaooo 😭
The process of it is so ENTERTAINING but also frustrating as hell because sometimes it feels like you don't even understand a language you're fluent in??? It's like re-learning it over and over again? Just fascinating. And the process is the same through writing, I think. I hope you'll have fun through the next months experimenting with it
I love how you describe poets and poetry in itself - "Poets sprint ahead, indifferent to whether the reader is keeping pace with their metaphors, literary choices, or overall intended meaning."
I think that's why poetry is so fun to read for me as my brain gets disjointed in the process of it, every line, verse, word will cut, reassemble, entangle thoughts and images I can already have in mind. Sometimes, it takes me where the poet maybe wants to take us, sometimes it doesn't but it will take me somewhere else. The end result is the same, we feel. A lot. And even if in the moment we feel nothing at the sight of words I realised it comes back at crucial moments.
You’re so right when you mentioned that poetry almost scrambles your brain. That’s such a good way to put it — it does that so fast and then reorders it, almost, and then leaves you kind of dazed until you become used to the new shape of things. I’m learning to love that process, not only as a reader but as a writer as well. Be prepared to see me in your WhatsApp messages asking for poetry collection recommendations throughout the whole year lmaooo 😭
As always thank you for readingggg
The process of it is so ENTERTAINING but also frustrating as hell because sometimes it feels like you don't even understand a language you're fluent in??? It's like re-learning it over and over again? Just fascinating. And the process is the same through writing, I think. I hope you'll have fun through the next months experimenting with it
Ill have my pile of recommendations ready;#&-&-&#