I entirely agree with you about the obscurity of Mrs Browning's line about the stars. It is far-fetched. She wanted to express something which she found beyond expression.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?
With poets, the choice of words is invariably more telling than the story line; that's why the best of them dread the thought of their biographies being written.
I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work of mine.'
I think that when you write for stars, I think that you have to be very specific about what they do beautifully and let them bring it to life.
Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.
The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them.
I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.
But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it.
I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
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