Let us ponder <br />the words and phrases <br />poets and artists <br /> <br />have used <br />as we delve <br /> <br />into obvious <br />and deeper <br />inner meanings. <br /> <br /> <br />What is exact origin <br />of these so often <br />quoted famous <br />choice chosen words? <br /> <br /> <br />A spontaneous <br />eureka phrase <br />born instantly <br />in the mind <br /> <br />or a protracted <br />laboured discourse <br />cunningly created <br />a deliberate conceit. <br /> <br /> <br />Writers so love <br />their ingenious <br />imaginative poetic <br />chosen images <br /> <br />writing must contain <br />such images <br />as metaphor simile <br />personification <br /> <br />a comparison <br />which is extreme <br />or far-fetched <br />wins accolades. <br /> <br /> <br />However the exact <br />meaning as envisaged <br />by moods of original <br />penmanship are not <br /> <br />conceived embodied <br />as a clone interpretation <br />by readers separated <br />by time space cultural bias. <br /> <br /> <br />We the reader impose <br />individualistic insightful <br />meaning as dictated by <br />personal taste possibly <br />skilled literary criticism. <br /> <br /> <br />Rhetoric discourse read <br />might be described as <br />a clever trick of arbitrary <br />whim, written by magicians <br /> <br />of illusion; yet many scripts <br />can be traced to proven <br />historical events which <br />occurred in the artists lifetime. <br /> <br /> <br />Good criticism will progress <br />from an introductory How <br />into What a text means, based <br />upon insightful and plausible <br />readings, with appropriate quotes <br />to sustain the argument chosen. <br /> <br /> <br />Copyright © Terence George Craddock<br /><br />Terence George Craddock (Spectral Images and Images Of Light)<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/deeper-inner-meanings/
