Ms Inez Pince-Nez wanted Anastasia to learn more
about poetry and the creative process, therefore she
ordered a book from teacher Ivan in a far-off college
and instructed Ana to study the learned epistle.
Ana studied it diligently, but couldn't decide what it meant,
it was so VAGUE, so removed from sensory experience,
especially a phrase she could not fathom:
This is what she studied:
Kindly explain the concept of creating poetry, taking
control of feeling and imagination and how creators
should control their creative ideas and stop themselves
from losing contact with reality?
“It is a difficult question to answer because poetic creativity
isn’t necessarily based in ‘reality', though it still has to be
interpretable into what the wider world considers ’normal’ usage.
A conundrum exists between where creative minds exist, or
more correctly, avoid being cosseted or controlled. If you let
imaginative imagery flow without attaching it to a time and
place it avoids structural impedance of
systemic consequence.
So you let it be free.
When you come back to edit it, always needed to keep it in check,
you have the dilemma of interpretation. The question is ‘why did I
imagine that?’ When you perceive a connection with what prompted
such an
unfettered imagination you’ve crossed the boundary.
And your poetic ‘sense' returns to a communicative ‘normality’ –
you created the vision from ‘non-reality’ and translated it into the
medium of lucidity. And that is
what creative poetry is.”
Ah, Ana thought, it sounds so impressive, but - I still don’t know
what it means…
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