RA>Thank you, Sondra.  I really do tend to shy away from discussing
  >literature, though, and I'm totally adrift when it comes to poetry--not
  >that I should really be saying this to a poet !    It
Hey, I'm sometimes adrift in poetry, too.  However, when that happens, I
believe in myself enough to announce that the poem that set me adrift is
"a terrible poem".  After all, the purpose of writing poetry is
communication; and if no-one understands the poem, then the poet has
failed to do his or her job.
  >goes back to my freshman year at college.  At the same time the kids in
  >the English lit class I was taking were coming up with all these arcane
  >insights into 'The Wasteland', which I had not heard of before taking the
I started graduate school in English lit, but quit early on, without
getting my degree.  One of the things that annoyed me was the way
everybody went around interpreting everything.  Hey, to quote Freud,
"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."
  >invitation only.  Of course, I went out and bought the book ('Stalking
  >Joy' by Margaret Benbow).  After nearly 35 years, the stuff is still
Yolu are a friend of Margaret Benbow!  Impressive!
                     Sondra
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