Jordy C wrote:
> Will Dockery wrote:
>> Jordy C. wrote:
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>> >> > It's odd and puzzling how many people seem to think and believe that a poem or a song or a story is necessarally autobiographical! this is just NOT necessarily so! For example, the song or poem may be written from the POV of a writer's persona, or one of their many personas, or they may be written from the POV of invented characters... the members of Steely Dan, for example, have discussed how people would believe that they were writing about themselves, when they have said they were primarily writing *fiction*, they were basically writing satirical sings told from the point of view of invented characters... now, this doesn't mean that their may not be autobiographical elements included in the song or poem, their may indeed be thoughts and feeling or events included that are at least similar to the ones experienced by the character(s) in the song or poem, but this does not necessarily mean that the poem is by any means strictly
>> >> > autobiographical.
>> >> Again, agreed, Jordy.
>> >>
>> >> Like I said, as Karla Rogers often reminded us:
>> >>
>> >> "Try not to mistake the speaker of the poem with the writer of the poem."
>> >>
>> >> HTH and HAND.
>> > thank you, Will
>>
>> Good morning, Jordy.
>>
>
> bonjour, Will

Hello again my friend.

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