A Poetics (84-86)
84. Lie
Does the voice make a lie of the poem? Because a good voice can make a weak poem seem strong and a poor voice can ruin a great poem. Is the poem isolated on the page (the screen) the most accurate version of the poem, true to itself, or does the voice we use to read it in our heads also ruin great poems and resurrect the dead ones?
85. Reference (# 77)
«Ce sont les mots mêmes que le Bourgeois lit tous les matins, les mêmes! Mais voilà: s'il lui arrive de les retrouver en tel mien poème, il ne les comprend plus.»
—Stéphane Mallarmé
86. Pleasure
To succeed, a poem must provide pleasure. Pleasure comes in many forms, but always through the mind. The poem must please the reader, but the only reader that must matter to the poet is the poet. The poet's mantra: "I please myself. I pleasure myself."
ecr. l'inf.
Does the voice make a lie of the poem? Because a good voice can make a weak poem seem strong and a poor voice can ruin a great poem. Is the poem isolated on the page (the screen) the most accurate version of the poem, true to itself, or does the voice we use to read it in our heads also ruin great poems and resurrect the dead ones?
85. Reference (# 77)
«Ce sont les mots mêmes que le Bourgeois lit tous les matins, les mêmes! Mais voilà: s'il lui arrive de les retrouver en tel mien poème, il ne les comprend plus.»
—Stéphane Mallarmé
86. Pleasure
To succeed, a poem must provide pleasure. Pleasure comes in many forms, but always through the mind. The poem must please the reader, but the only reader that must matter to the poet is the poet. The poet's mantra: "I please myself. I pleasure myself."
ecr. l'inf.
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