Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Interpretation
Something that I don't enjoy about a lot of poetry is the highly interpretive aspect of the genre. Granted, many authors and poems tell you exactly what the piece is about. Obviously, though, this is not the case for all poetry. The poems that I have to disect line by line with a tight and focused lens are ones I lose patience with. Even when I have an idea in my mind, it is oftimes completely wrong. I want to know what's being meant for sure, and I don't want to spend ten minutes reading a stanza of four lines, trying to figure out what is going on. Although I can understand the appeal to some readers, I am not one of them. I lose focus and let my mind wander, and before I know it I'm at the end of the poem and have no idea what I've just read.
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That very thing you detest is something that I usually enjoy, should I be able to "crack" the poem successfully. However, I can definitely see how it can be tedious, especially if you don't like the poem/author. Perhaps in another setting you'd have more patience for those sorts of poems. Since you have to read these for class, you probably have come to resent the effort you are forced to put in. This makes sense, since most people eventually resent anything that is compulsory, even if it is something that they once enjoyed.
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