tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1325993744355181430.post8005974714258995646..comments2023-06-17T13:27:37.512+01:00Comments on New Poetries: Lesley Saunders on finishing a poemEJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828650759873212450noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1325993744355181430.post-54428016421317923782015-08-02T21:40:26.678+01:002015-08-02T21:40:26.678+01:00Thanks for the namecheck, Lesley! Re: mythical/his...Thanks for the namecheck, Lesley! Re: mythical/historical figures in my work, anyone who's 'done' _The Waste Land_ will have the relevant South Asian background. The other references are likely to have surfaced via Nobel Laureates Walcott and Naipaul, so they should be in the popular collective unconscious and not too alienating. Any remaining oddities are mostly Old Norse and Old English but deliberately rather hidden.<br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1325993744355181430.post-22005364088773211832015-07-27T18:59:22.473+01:002015-07-27T18:59:22.473+01:00Context is everything, as you are well aware. An e...Context is everything, as you are well aware. An explicit title may suit the single poem, to give the context, but it might be ditched later in the context of a collection. I take it for granted that most of my first-time readers are on an upward learning curve, even if it’s a modest one. They’d be disappointed, surely, if they didn’t have anything to look into afterwards. I certainly don’t think readers should be spoonfed. Let them look up a name or two from mythology/history. Or, even better, teach readers the name of an unfairly obscure character from mythology/history by making it easy to guess who this character must be. Danish doghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08020527943859347043noreply@blogger.com