I think this has just been the trigger I needed to understand why I just can't seem to /get/ poetry.
It's the lack of paragraphs. I'm a massively kinaesthetic thinker, and I hadn't realised how heavily that carried across to my understanding of the written word.
Words that haven't been semantically ordered by their spatial relationships leave me scrabbling at the page and totally unable to process what I'm looking at.
It was your first line that gave me the ephiphany. I keep looking at and my mind just keeps sliding off it. Like a moth-kinden trying to understand a steam engine.
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I think this has just been the trigger I needed to understand why I just can't seem to /get/ poetry.
It's the lack of paragraphs. I'm a massively kinaesthetic thinker, and I hadn't realised how heavily that carried across to my understanding of the written word.
Words that haven't been semantically ordered by their spatial relationships leave me scrabbling at the page and totally unable to process what I'm looking at.
It was your first line that gave me the ephiphany. I keep looking at and my mind just keeps sliding off it. Like a moth-kinden trying to understand a steam engine.
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