The pre-verbal...

A poem can survive stylistic blemishes but it cannot survive a stillbirth. ---Seamus Heaney

[LTG]

允許有表達上的欠缺，不允許有憑空的做作...

right on!!!!!

"做作" is the worst enemy for poets....and it is the easiest to be sensed or detected ....

[地中海人魚]

讚同！詩歌應該是鮮活的。

當詩人的感情誕生於筆端，其以詩歌的形式存在下來，無論到什麽時候，仍舊能給人以“活”的感覺。--- 允許有表達上的欠缺，不允許有憑空的做作。

很多的詩歌，漂亮的詞匯如繁花亂眼，一首詩裏，重複的表達，重複的意象，重複的抒情，遮住了真實的麵目。

life,life,life ... ...

[影雲]

agree . . . with the "standard" . . . which sees through the "form" and into the "essence"

[LTG]

yeah, dead mind produces dead things....

Seamus's "standard" might be the ultimate rule for poetry, or any other art form....

[影雲]

i guess, "stillbirth" also hints a dead mind . . .

[知凡]

"Blemishes" here means something like "shortcoming," or "not-quite-good," etc..
i think :)

[now i understand....thanks...]

because when a poem is made, a new life comes into being....that is why a "stillbirth" of a poem can only bring a "dead thing"....

life!

life!

life!

we need life!!!

there are already too many "dead things" in the air :))

[!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]

[LTG]

"Blemishes" here means something like "shortcoming," or "not-quite-good," etc..
i think :)

because when a poem is made, a new life comes into being....that is why a "stillbirth" of a poem can only bring a "dead thing"....

life!

life!

life!

we need life!!!

there are already too many "dead things" in the air :))

[知凡]

"stylistic blemishes"... 我理解這句話，換一個說法，是不是一首詩就像一個人一樣，要有"個性"(Individuality)...有些“blemishes”是一種味道。。。