tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4439011639472684219.post6517987428277085302..comments2023-07-05T02:00:02.956-07:00Comments on Poe-Query: Two, two, two thoughts in oneJoannie Stangelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06006768246992875405noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4439011639472684219.post-50775053882472644642007-09-22T16:32:00.000-07:002007-09-22T16:32:00.000-07:00Thanks for those thoughts. They led me to a couple...Thanks for those thoughts. They led me to a couple more questions. Can you develop the "character" of a poem by getting to know the poem more intimately? (I know, I'm harping on that memorization thing again.) Can you, through enough familiarity, create your own backstory, even if it's mostly an emotional backstory, as opposed to plot? <BR/><BR/>Also, are poems actually more ironic by virtue of their brevity and compression? Or have I been thinking about irony in the wrong way? (Which could explain a lot!)Joannie Stangelandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06006768246992875405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4439011639472684219.post-70389900584075223342007-09-21T13:32:00.000-07:002007-09-21T13:32:00.000-07:00I've posted a lot recently about J. M. Coetzee, an...I've posted a lot recently about J. M. Coetzee, and the issue that fascinates me most about his work is the relationship betweeen JMC's ideas and the ideas developed by characters in his fiction. <BR/><BR/>I've been wondering the past few days about how this can be connected to poetry. A possible, rather surprising conclusion is that poetry tends to be less "innately" ironic than fiction, if you will, since the characters who mouth ideas in fiction are often more developed (simply by virtue of the sheer length of fiction?) than those presented in poetry.<BR/><BR/>But I'm still developing these ideas. Perhaps I will post about them in 2009. :-)<BR/><BR/>Or when I find a poet who sets me thinking about these things in the same way that JMC does.Andrew Shieldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02804655739574694901noreply@blogger.com