Word: meaningfulness
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The rest of the play continues in a similar vein, with scenes and songs based on Poe’s poetry and his difficult experiences—both romantic and maternal—with women. As each woman sequentially enters and leaves the stage, a new dimension of meaning is...
As oversimplified a complaint as it may be, it would be unwise for the poetic community to dismiss the confounding quality of contemporary poetry entirely. It is often quite difficult to divine meaning from poems written today—even for those intimately involved in reading and writing them?...
Nevertheless, poetry has an oral component, and though it is underemphasized, there is something awoken in any poem when it is actually spoken out loud. Echoing sounds connect lines that are semantically distinct. An emphasis placed on a key syllable can release meaning in the same way a sound wave...
NH: Yeah, I think people get a kick out of coming, especially for the big three Python movies: “Life of Brian,” “Meaning of Life,” and “The Holy Grail.”
TL: No, it’s funny, but some of the other ones, like “Meaning of Life,” are just so bizarre that they’re not as much fun.