"Our perception of a work of art is not something that is fixed. It depends as much, if not more, on the period in which the work is being viewed and on our expectations of it as it does on the period in which it was created."
I think this essay is complete nonsense. I try my hardest to avoid poetry because it's too abstract for me, but I have been forced to dabble in the literary unit through the years. What I have come to realize is that poetry is like painting a picture with your words. Poetry is for the most creative writers with the most spectacular diction. Poetry is very emotional and moreover extremely unique.
In these respects poetry is more relatable to drawing and painting than to writing an essay or analyzing a novel. Unlike Perrine, I believe poetry speaks to different people in different ways. A reader with a charmed life will analyze differently than a reader with thousands of skeletons in his/her closet. Aspects of our life such as our hometowns, our families, and our friends impact how we think. No one has the same life so no one has the same brain.
That being said, I cannot agree with any aspect of Perrine's lecture. Maybe I missed something he said or I'm not understanding correctly, but it's my interpretation and I'm sticking to it.
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