Accessing my muse has been an invaluable key for unlocking the front door of my imagination. In my opinion, Muse work is not poetry. Instead, Muse work is more of a “psychedelic”(for lack of a better term) projecting the inner workings of one’s internal onto the external environment, that environment being the paper being written on. When a persons imaginings are first expressed as words on the written page they are naught but raw materials or unpolished language. For the words to be constructed as poetry they have to be organized from their raw form into the polished form of poetry. Distinguishing Muse work from poetry is key to understanding how to create poems. One must understand that the initial expressions of thoughts on a page is but the first step to creating poetry, not the only step. I have stumbled with this distinction early this semester, but I feel I’m coming to understand the contrast.
I completely agree with you Taylor, muse work is the first step to writing a poem but not the only step. At the beginning of the semester I was confused how the muse work would help me write a poem. However in the end the Muse work allowed me to go deeper into my inital thoughts and find out the true meaning of a certain topic to my life
ReplyDeleteTaylor! I find what you said completely true on many levels. Just recently I've learned to appreciate muse work, but still not as much as I probably should. I find it hard not to edit my work as I write. But with the muse, you are forced to have a first draft of a "poem". I think it's cool to watch the poem fall into place and really take form.
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