Leigha O’Hara response
- For the poem I read closest, “Personal Poem” I think that a large portion of potential meaning making or lack there of comes from the potential connection or disconnection between author and speaker of the poem. I was really boggled by this because of both the title and the personal pronouns used.
- Similar to my answer in the first question I think that by potentially breaking the dynamic of speaker and him just being the speaker himself creates intimacy between author and reader.
- From this poem in particular and the other poems we were assigned I think that he was mostly avant-garde in nature BUT because of his allusion and style that mirrors other avant-garde poems we have read, I wonder if that makes him kitsch?
- the use of “blague” is interesting… isn’t everything in the avant-garde a “blague”? (I’m thinking of the move Duchamp made with the urinal) And where does straight use of irony or satire separate from this? I definitely think he is satirical, and that he uses irony but does that automatically mean he is intentionally using “blague” (blagueing?)
