Tho this post by Thomas Basbøll is a year old, I have been wanting to lay out my own comments still further on the appropriateness of paraphrasing as Kasey Mohammad and Johnathan Mayhew have described...or should I say "explained," because I feel that any form of paraphrasing is in reality an explanation, much like if I were to refer to a document, not legally being allowed to quote it, and set out to paraphrase its meaning (which would be for my purposes, and not the author's). Poems I feel, are the description, while any meaning that is attached (theory) is explanation, and therefore paraphrase, and therefore a specific point of view. Much explanation (paraphrase), which tends toward contruction of theory, seems to follow Nietsche's argument that history is circular. Into what terms does the paraphrase bring the poem, or whose terms does paraphrasing bring forth?
All this leads to my personal curiosity into what is the belief system of the poet, and about what is there philosophically that drives the poem at its birth. I want to look at these issues as additional sign posts (or explainers) in addition to the description that is the poem. I want to look at these patterns in today's poets, and poetry.
More later.
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