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James

You are most welcome

Nina

[jgdittier]

Dear Jox,
From my point of view, in depth discussions of a piece of poetry is the greatest reward I'd want for mine. Thus I hope you discount my comment about the typing finger.
I suppose the area where we underlap our views is re "deep conviction" in poetry. Since when reading poetry we can't see expressions, nor eyes, hear vocal inflections, etc., and poetry often says so much in so few words, all seem to me to establish a situation where interpretation is difficult. It would therefore seem that as soon as this fact was recognized, some means to deal with it would be adopted. I assume the early poets found that they preferred the potential for misinterpretation and it has become as aspect of poetry.
I find a parallelism even now, tho of the slightest importance. In writing verse, if I shorten a word in order to maintain the cadence, I show the apostrophe. I am strict about cadence and do not want my reader to stumble over whether a normally three-syllable word be
pronounced with just two. It seems to me to be a favor for the reader. But no, I was quickly told that modern style requires the word to be fully spelled out, inferring that it's up to the reader to pronounce it as I intended. I've similarly never seen why.

As to how to assure that the thrust of the piece is properly interpreted, I'd totally leave that to the descretion of the writer. It's just that when I've written what I call "think pieces", they've usually been unintentionally confusing which was not my goal.

Cheers,    jgd