Words Beyond Meaning

By Ewan

Wed, 18 Dec 2019
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Each line pondered

conveys still less,

each time you pore

over its words:

‘Nil ut timeans

on night’

just glory in the asemic

nature of ‘timeans’,

later you will decode

this anagram in cod-latin

and our mother tongue

‘until it means

nothing’.

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Submitted by Ewan on

read the summary on the read page first...

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Submitted by rosaliekempthorne on

Actually, on its own I think this poem says a lot. At least to me it speaks about the analysing and over-analysing of literature/art until its leached of all its beauty and whatever it's really trying to say. Tidily and cleverly expressed.

Submitted by Ewan on

a huge difference between information on technique/inspiration from primary sources, that is - something that an artist has written or (definitely) said about a particular work - and the guff that is often on display beside art in a gallery, especially for an exhibition. I was in Leeds Art Gallery recently for the Slow Painting Exhibition. There was nothing wrong with the art, but the material on the wall varied from the deeply patronising to the unintelligible.

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