I often hear people express they have trouble understanding poetry. That it’s too abstract, that they have trouble finding “the meaning”. The trouble lies in the belief that poems serve meaning on a silver platter.
I enter poems like rooms. When you think about how much our environments influence us and inspire certain feelings, a poem acts in the same w…
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