The Secret (Parte Tres y Quatro)

thanks for your comment. for me poets are not confessing, but are putting their feelings on to paper. they talk about how the world affects them in their day to day life. And yes it is an outlet. Most poets live in a world outside the rest of the world, because they see all the colors of the rainbow, but in their own shades not in ours. So that's what they try to make us see! thanks Eddie

I wrote this as a study on how to read poetry and find the meaning in a poets mind. The reference to Plato, is his write of us not being single minded. We must read poetry not in our shoes, but in the shoes of the poet to understand what they are trying to convey. I don't know if you have read Plato "Men Of the Cave" but here it is: "Some men are chained together in a cave by the neck and arms, they can not see right or left, as they can not turn their heads all they see is the shadows on the wall that is in front of them, these shadows are created by the fire that is behind them, and this is all they see. One day one of the men escapes, and after a long while he returns to save his follow prisoners. He tells them that there is a world of beautiful colors outside the cave. The men become angered at what he has said. They scream at him, there is nothing else beside the shadows we see on the wall, and refuse to leave the cave." "Philosophy of Plato" So Barbara as you see the point is, that when we read poetry we must look beyond our own cave to understand the poet. and that's all I'm trying to say here. thanks for your comment. we are more than a community, we shape the thinking of a world! Eddie

that's it Dark, we read and we learn, but the trick is knowing how to read poetry and be in the others mind. I appreciate your comment. Eddie

Let the light of the Potter continue to shine on us! thanks for the rainbow I needed it today, my friend! Eddie

yes it is with a "q" but it is about attention to what is said, and how. very good on your part! Like a nut is the right phrase, are we all that write a little out there, at less it's what Hawthorne and Kafka thought, and less not forget it was where Freud got his idea for psychoanalysis, from the poets. So I guess we're a psychiatrist nightmare. LOL thanks for your comment. have a happy! Eddie

It absolutely is. thanks, Eddie

It should stand up, But the reader sometimes sees something that the poet did not intent. So does it still stand in the meaning of the poet or does it become something else. So we can say that what the poet writes can take on new meaning. because of another persons perception. This is why I say that we must read in the shoes of the poet, and that bring me back to the point of all this, Plato "Men in Cave" So as you see it is not easy to try and relate what the poet is thinking, because of the different shades of thinking. thank for your well thought out comment and seeing what this poem is intending, Eddie