Do you prefer poems about the poet's inside world or poems about the poet's view of the external world?
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I really don't like poems, mainly because I rarely understand what people are trying to say. But of those two I'd prefer the external view. At least then I will have a chance of catching a meaning.
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I think in a good poem both are interconnected. A poem exclusively based in a poets internal world that doesn't have a connection to anything in the outer world, to me, is pointless. You have to use images or symbols from the outer world to give people something powerful to relate to. One example is Carol Ann Duffy's poem about love where she compares her heart to an onion, or Sylvia Plath's poem "Tulips" where she uses the bright red of tulips against the stale white-grey of a hospital ward as an exploration of her disconnection from reality during a depressive illness.
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