Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Forwarding and sonnets

What I appreciated about the sonnets was the opportunity to reconfigure them according to your own feelingsor thoughts. The ability to alter a poem, which is something so dependent on form, is such a profound privledge. A reader of that poem decides it's meaning through altering it's structure. Then again, if an author allows anyone to randomly reformilate th text, is the form really valuable? What happens when anyone can take a piece and edit it? Does the piece become "fatherless." I do like ghe idea that a reader can be invested in a particular work. That idea is very democratic and conversation like. It is reminiscnt of the old young adult books that would allow you to choose an ending to the story by deciding which pages to turn to in the story.

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