Culture,Age,Reading and Writing

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Wed, 2002-04-24 10:10

How much does culture have to do with what people are interested in reading?The reason i ask this is that there are a lot of poems that touch others deeply but don't do anything for me.May be it's because they invoke memories of a particular generation or time...........Maybe i'm too young or have lead a too sheltered life or belong to another culture.......I guess i have to broaden my horizons!The trouble is i want it all now.I want to be able to share all those wonderful memories and images.Right now i feel like 'Tom' the water baby who couldn't stand the taste of sweets and had to stand there watching while all the other water babies enjoyed themselves!Except of couse that i haven't gone and stuffed myself so full of "sweets" that i've made myself sick!
Advice please!(have i put in too many exclamation marks?)

Thu, 2002-08-22 18:18

Babewithbrains

you can never have too many exclamation marks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and try discussing poetry with other people to see what their take on it is. I do that and have learnt a lot. (but don't try it with any of my friends because they think John Keats was a pornographer)

Tue, 2003-08-26 13:02

Pete

I think we are all limited in the extent to which we can empathise with situations that are alien to us(I hope its not just me).We are moved by accounts which involve emotions we feel even in different settings from our own.As we accrue experience we will identify with more situations and emotions.I suppose youth will tend to reduce the available range of experiences but my intuition is that culture will not though it may generate contextual differences for the expression of affect.Maybe?

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