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Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Theme Bait

I went to a poetry reading once (many times) in which the poet depended on the themes of his work. He would explain eloquently what his poetry was about and then read a poem in which none of that was really happening.

You have to do it in the poem.

1 comment:

Andrew Shields said...

That also comes up with singer-songwriters who say a song is about X and then it's not about X at all.