Deeper Inner Meanings Poem by Terence George Craddock (Spectral Images and Images Of Light)

Let us ponder
the words and phrases
poets and artists

have used
as we delve

into obvious
and deeper
inner meanings.


What is exact origin
of these so often
quoted famous
choice chosen words?


A spontaneous
eureka phrase
born instantly
in the mind

or a protracted
laboured discourse
cunningly created
a deliberate conceit.


Writers so love
their ingenious
imaginative poetic
chosen images

writing must contain
such images
as metaphor simile
personification

a comparison
which is extreme
or far-fetched
wins accolades.


However the exact
meaning as envisaged
by moods of original
penmanship are not

conceived embodied
as a clone interpretation
by readers separated
by time space cultural bias.


We the reader impose
individualistic insightful
meaning as dictated by
personal taste possibly
skilled literary criticism.


Rhetoric discourse read
might be described as
a clever trick of arbitrary
whim, written by magicians

of illusion; yet many scripts
can be traced to proven
historical events which
occurred in the artists lifetime.


Good criticism will progress
from an introductory How
into What a text means, based
upon insightful and plausible
readings, with appropriate quotes
to sustain the argument chosen.


Copyright © Terence George Craddock