Poetic Requirements
What are the ingredients for a poetic experience? As a minimum one needs a text and a reader. Let's suppose (somewhat fancifully) that some texts are intrinsically more poetic than others. Let's also suppose that readers approach texts in various ways - they read a repair manual differently to the way they read a self-proclaimed poem. These options lead to the following possibilities. I've added examples of each scenerio to make things clearer. Poetic Text? Yes No Poetic Reading? Yes "Do Not Go Gentle" found poetry No Pop lyrics? repair manual To increase the poetic effect of a text, you can make the text more poetic, or you can make the reader adopt a more poetic approach. The latter option is not to be underestimated - if you make your text look like a poem, readers are more likely to treat it as such. They may read into your poem things you didn't put there, but at least they'll see more of what you meant them to see. The downside is that it risks accus...