Taming the poem

Interpreting meaning or translating poetry for sense has never been something I felt necessary. It in fact, tames the poem, whips it in to a framework for containment so that it will be a little less frightening.

It is the emphasis on understanding that allows the deconstructionist to say that words have no meanings or more accurately mean what we think they mean and are therefore relatively meaningless.

which is saying the butterfly landing on my knee means I am important or not when it is simply so.

Or to paraphrase, a poem is a state of being...what a poem does is the proof of synchronicity, but even saying that tames the moment more than I would ordinarily do.

narcissus would understand.