Tuesday, June 5, 2007
4 comments:
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Anonymous said...
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Just so you know, there are those of us who "got it" - it's not a failing on your part to be able to understand, and somebody always interprets things wrong.
...bu it ok 'cause I love you... :) -
June 5, 2007 at 12:53 PM
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Catherine Moody said...
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Hi Mykyl, it's not that anyone interpreted it "wrong" in this case. The poem did leave room for multiple interpretations. I posted this because I want people to know where I was "coming from". For example, some might think that the poem is making fun of those who spend so much time on SL that they forget to "feed the cat and pay the bills". (Well, I only write about what I understand first-hand!) That was just a bit of lighthearted humor. My real target was those people who make RL into a game... there is a lot of bitterness behind those silly rhymes.
I am beginning to understand why I want to include my annotations and analysis in my poetry book. When I shared my "Club Extreme", some people thought the last paragraph was about SL griefers. That is certainly a valid interpretation. But if I want to change the world, like Mykyl and Alphonsus, I need to make sure that my original message gets across.
Hmm, I should examine Phorkyad's book to see whether or not I like his format. -
June 5, 2007 at 3:40 PM
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Alphonsus said...
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Perhaps annotations would not be a bad thing, but at the same time, it might interfere with the right of the reader to take what is meaningful *to them* from the poem.
Any written work must be filtered through the mind of the reader. What is meant by, "in perspective for me," depends on that reader's heart and place at that moment. A person could understand the writer's meaning of a poem, but still get a different meaning entirely personal to themselves. Even if the interpretation is different, or even opposite, of the writer's intention, it is still may convey a message that the reader, for whatever reason, needs to hear. -
June 5, 2007 at 4:21 PM
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Catherine Moody said...
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Well, the reader certainly has the right to choose whether to read the annotations or not! :)
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June 5, 2007 at 6:19 PM
In your own way, you have put things into perspective for me. It is a "game," and my RL cat does indeed want to be fed. There are other things to do rather than sit glued to my computer, panicking when SL crashes, because I might miss something "important." RL is what is important. My RL self can enjoy SL, and my SL friends, but I will not die without SL, and Linden Labs!