Re: poetry

["Joe Cozzarelli" <cozz@lucent.com>]

I feel bad for anyone that has to analyze The Who.  The point is missed if
"analysis" is required.
It is ment to be listened to, enjoyed, and most of all felt.  At the end of
the day, I lcan isten to any
Who track and I don't need to analyze it to enjoy it.  When I read
Dickinson, I just kept asking
myself "Why doesn't she say what she means"
Cozz

-----Original Message-----
From: L. Bird <pkeets@hotmail.com>
To: TheWho@igtc.com <TheWho@igtc.com>
Date: Thursday, October 29, 1998 12:21 AM
Subject: poetry


>>Conclusion:  Ms. Dickinson's poetry, while it may not "touch" you in
>the same way as Townshend's, is better.  I have spent far too long
>analizing Townshend's songs and he does not have any of the symbolism or
>masterful metaphores of Dickinson.
>
>No symbolism?  Hmmm.  Then what's the Acid Queen?  The Empty Glass?
>"Drowned" seems to be a fairly decent metaphor.
>
>Uh.  BTW, is that word "analizing" one you use a lot? <blush>
>
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>>His poetry, almost without exception does not even attempt to vary from
>the crudest structures.  He does not posses a mastery of the language
>that Dickinson clearly has.  His songs rarely mean anything other than
>what appears on the surface, where as Dickinson's often have several
>levels of meaning.
>
>People argue about interpretation on the lists enough that there have to
>be varying possibilites.  I think I detect several levels of meaning in
>a couple of places.  I agree that some of Townshend's meanings seem
>haphazard rather than thought out.  But it's Jung rather than Freud you
>have to use for the key.  And after all, who am I to complain about
>poetry?
>
>
>>I must now confess that Dickinson was perhaps a poor example to use
>here, because she does not write the same type of poetry that Townshend
>does, so I will continue this discussion with another poet we are all
>familliar with:  Walt Whitman.
>
>I'm not a big poetry fan, but Whitman doesn't sound right either. You'll
>have to come up with somebody who deals in social issues.  Sandburg,
>maybe?
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>keets
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