Pleasure one might get from sight and sound of a poem is subjective. Intellection or process of understanding is more objective because what one understands is a meaning of poem. Because of the aforementioned reasons, one could argue that Ferlinghetti’s poem contradicts itself and is completely devout of meaning and fails to deliver its message in the right way. All the same, a literary critic has to keep in mind that the poem is to be heard and most people who hear the poem would not go ahead and try to find the above mentioned contradiction and generally lack of logic and truth in the poem. Pleasure a poem affords at sight and sound probably trumps one at
Pleasure one might get from sight and sound of a poem is subjective. Intellection or process of understanding is more objective because what one understands is a meaning of poem. Because of the aforementioned reasons, one could argue that Ferlinghetti’s poem contradicts itself and is completely devout of meaning and fails to deliver its message in the right way. All the same, a literary critic has to keep in mind that the poem is to be heard and most people who hear the poem would not go ahead and try to find the above mentioned contradiction and generally lack of logic and truth in the poem. Pleasure a poem affords at sight and sound probably trumps one at