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March 28, 2006

Poetic Implications

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Incoherent Digressions: A morning with the Swift Dude

I truly admire the simplicity of it. It's short, sweet, implicit, and hammers the point home.

It gets me thinking about implicitness (is that a word?), and subsequently, poetry. The beauty about an implicit statement is two-fold: it requires an individual to think for themselves to discover the meaning of the statement, and the meaning can differ according to a predisposition or mindset.
Poetry has a similiar objective, albeit a little more extreme. It has many facets, which allow it to be interpreted in many ways, depending on one's mood, opinion, and environment.

Each of the two forms of prose, if implicity (is that a word?!?) can indeed be considered a form of prose, has it's appropriate time and place. When describing spirituality, for example, poetry is perhaps more appropriate as it's definition allows it to be more abstract than implicity.
For the very same reason, one would be compelled to use implicity in a court of law, or when otherwise trying to state a point, rather than poetry.

1 Comments:

Blogger R R said...

and yes, i am totally with you in regards to the power of "implicitness" (also known as subtlety at some levels).

look forward to read more from you.

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