Published by admin on 1st June 2010
What are the things that every poet or storyteller should know before and after going professional?
1) Marketing is the key to getting your work out there.
Most of the time poets and storytellers focus a lot of their energy on publishing the book or getting the CD done. But what happens when that is done? How will you get your products into the hands of the reader or audience member? How are you going to reach people who can afford to buy your work?
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Published by admin on 1st June 2010
I like to read poetry, and Robert Frost is one of my favorite writers. I also like his instructions about studying and interpreting it. In a lecture at Bread Loaf in 1960, he asked the students to name the ways they would use to teach poetry. They listed reading, memorizing, printing, analyzing, glorifying, praising, and several others. In his discussion he crossed off all but reading, memorizing, and printing. He said the rest compromised “the Muse.” He believed that the poem meant what it meant to the person who read it. Sheldon W Liebman wrote an article which was published in The New England Quarterly, Vol. 66, No. 3 (Sep., 1993), pp. 399-415 which describes this event.
He criticized analysis for sake of erudition as if we are seeking some secret knowledge hidden in a puzzle. Frost repeatedly stated that poetry is not direct communication; the poet is saying things that the reader already knows. As Emily Dickinson said, “Tell the truth, but tell it slant.” It is not intended to inform, but, like religion, to reveal life. The use of metaphor in poetry is designed to allow the reader to see truth that cannot be spoken directly. Poetry allows depths of understanding that too much instruction destroys. It is better to let it come to the reader from the poem than from the instructor.
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Published by admin on 1st June 2010
Tennyson’s lady poems deal with imaginary women who are placed in imaginary moments. In “Claribel” the woman protagonist is dead and buried however the poem is more about the atmosphere around the grave evoking the spirit of the place. The poet is simply overcome by the moment and his poetry evokes an ancient and eternal peaceful moment.
Again in “Marianna” the sense of place and the sensations of the woman are articulately invoked in the poem. The core of “Marianna” is the sense of a life which is no life and which waits for death. It is very much suspended in a moment and the landscape is again associated with a state of mind, that of Marianna who is suspended in a moment waiting for her lover. The mood evoked is one of languor and dereliction which articulates Marianna’s solitary self feeling lonely and abandoned while waiting for her lover ‘without hope of change’. Despite the fact that the inspiration for “Marianna” was Shakespeare’s play “Measure for Measure”, Tennyson does not seem to be considered in the events that follow but is only concerned on one particular moment that evokes the hopelessness of a woman who was jilted by her lover.
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