I don't think it's 'stupidity'. I think it is very interesting, showing how human brains work. Like it's interesting that I get very accurate 'ear worms' (Shirley Bassey/Propellerheads are stoping me sleeping at the moment) but can't sing.
So, a question and a suggestion.
Question: how are you with performed poetry (whether it's something which started out as performance, or something which is read text)? But poetry you listen to on youtube (or similar). Not a helpful question, but one because I'm interested in how our brains work!
A suggestion: Next time you are faced with a poem as a provocation: look over the words. Just as words. Don't make any attempt to make sense. Take three of them (any three - choose by throwing a dice, or because they seem interesting or by any other method).
For example: The prompt is "Such at tide as moving seems asleep, too full for sound and foam" Your words might be "tide, asleep, and" Who cares if this says to you 'washing powder! piles of washing left while I dream"
The whole point about 'prompts' is that they are provocative. People can, and do and should be prompted both to the obvious 'oh it's about the sea' and the personally significance that really, even stretching it a lot, nothing to do with the original 'oh, it's about earworms'.
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Date: 2011-07-03 09:32 pm (UTC)I don't think it's 'stupidity'. I think it is very interesting, showing how human brains work. Like it's interesting that I get very accurate 'ear worms' (Shirley Bassey/Propellerheads are stoping me sleeping at the moment) but can't sing.
So, a question and a suggestion.
Question: how are you with performed poetry (whether it's something which started out as performance, or something which is read text)? But poetry you listen to on youtube (or similar). Not a helpful question, but one because I'm interested in how our brains work!
A suggestion: Next time you are faced with a poem as a provocation: look over the words. Just as words. Don't make any attempt to make sense. Take three of them (any three - choose by throwing a dice, or because they seem interesting or by any other method).
For example: The prompt is "Such at tide as moving seems asleep, too full for sound and foam" Your words might be "tide, asleep, and"
Who cares if this says to you 'washing powder! piles of washing left while I dream"
The whole point about 'prompts' is that they are provocative. People can, and do and should be prompted both to the obvious 'oh it's about the sea' and the personally significance that really, even stretching it a lot, nothing to do with the original 'oh, it's about earworms'.