We've Learned Poetry Wrong
Key Takeaways
David Perell discusses how poetry is often misunderstood and should be experienced like music, focusing on rhythm and the multitude of meanings it offers, rather than just literal logic sense, using examples like Hotel California to illustrate this point, and emphasizing the importance of line breaks and the experience of reading poetry.
Full Transcript
But, if I would have said, "Just listen to this poem the way you listen to a song." This is song on paper. Just listen to it like that. Now, what do you hear? And now, listen to it again, just like you would let you get more out of listening to and I always use Hotel California. Like, who knows what that means? And what I mean? It's really about the experience. The experience of it. Because we don't we put words together. If we wanted to make exact literal logic sense, we wouldn't be writing poetry. >> Yeah, you don't read poetry to get the meaning of the sentence. You know, you read poetry for the music and for the experience and for the the multitude of meanings that it offers that the line break offers. >> It gets back to rhythm.
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