Pair. Here’s Kay Ryan’s ‘Paired Things’: http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/paired-things and ‘The Evening Pair of Ales’ by Paul Blackburn in which the word ‘pair’ only appears in the title: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/243862
Pair.
Pair. Here’s Kay Ryan’s ‘Paired Things’: http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/paired-things and ‘The Evening Pair of Ales’ by Paul Blackburn in which the word ‘pair’ only appears in the title: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/243862
Pair.
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I had a bit of a thought today (dangerous) – if we didn’t know what the prompt had been for our poems would we still feel the same way about commenting on each other’s work and would we still understand it and would it stand up on its own ??? and I can’t answer that …
A couple of times I’ve had to think hard about how one of this batch of StaPoWriMo poems has got where it has because its link to the prompt isn’t obvious. Or it hasn’t followed it exactly. But then I remember that right at the start I suggested breaking the rules is a good thing to do… so, really, the prompt is irrelevant.
But, to answer your question about would we still feel the same way… at first I was reluctant to pass any comment because producing a draft a day is blinking hard! My own way of working is to hand-write a quick draft, type it up, then put it away for a while. So it seemed unfair to critique a poem that was still in its early stages.
However, I must have got over it!
For me, putting a poem away for a while is the most important part of the process. Any questions about its genesis disappear when i come to it with a fresh eye because I’m left with either, What the hell is this about? or Blimey, did I write that?
As to our day-to-day comments – maybe the prompt does influence them to a degree. Maybe we should re-post them several drafts later under Workshop…just to see…