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I Can't Poetry by Pmarproject
I am never sure whether to take prose writing at face value for what the words say, or whether someone is trying to have a deeper meaning that I am just not noticing.
A long time ago I had to choose a poem and write down what I thought it meant, but I wanted to read a poem about a lovely song bird. The problem was, I really didn't feel there was any deeper meaning in the words other than describing what it means to a bird to sing.
However, I was told that the poem, and every poem, always has a deeper meaning and that I was missing the deep biblical intonations implied by a poem about a singing bird. To this day, I still do not see where any of that was implied in the poem and it has made me wary of expressing an opinion on most poetry. If you have an opinion on how to view poetry, please let me know!
The character I use to represent myself is a bird that likes to sing and look fancy, but usually sounds loud and terrible.
I Can't Poetry
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I was more surprised that they were trying to find implied elements in a poem that I simply did not think were there. They were under the impression that all poems have a hidden double meaning like an abstract sculpture.
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From what I remember of studying Literature, we had to contrast two similar poems/prose together. With poems that are distinct in the author's meaning it'll likely they can be differentiated. If one describes their love as alluding to Temperance and the other to Prudence, they both show concerns over love, but the former is likely referring to self-constraint from consuming their lover (we think of Temperance as not indulging in habits) while a Prudent would-be lover has concerns over their own health (like they're going head-over-heels for someone.)
It's like being blinded by a light by your sole focus, where looking at another you can pick out which one is brighter, redder et al. * It gets easier with practice, and studying love makes you the lucky one, as I had to study War Poetry. Which is how I ended up with my *thousand letter stare. (Reference to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand-yard_stare )