Short formats such as Anne Carson’s “Short Talks” have multiple creative advantages and keep attention, but the poems also tend to be too short to form a clear thesis if any and makes it hard to create a theme for each of her poems. Advantages such as the retention of attention, but it can also give relevance to her piece by adding references to popular subjects within the era in which the poems were written. Carson’s poems also cause disadvantages for her by being too vague or for the inability to explain her references. Anne Carson’s poems are convenient and short, her work does not need to say much and yet it still has a point to it. Attention does not need to be dragged over a long period, for it to then be lost through the obscurity
