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| "Good morning, my little ones, how did you sleep?" |
"After the politicians, I went to the poets, the writers of tragedies and dithyrambs and the others, intending in their case to catch myself being more ignorant then [sic] they. So I took up those poems with which they seemed to have taken most trouble and asked them what they meant... I am ashamed to tell you the truth, gentlemen, but I must. Almost all the bystanders might have explained the poems better than their authors could. I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say... At the same time I saw that, because of their poetry, they thought themselves very wise men in other respects, which they were not. So there again I withdrew, thinking that I had the same advantage over them as I had over the politicians."
I think this section from Plato's Apology (spoken by Socrates) pretty much explains how I feel about this poem of mine in the
Fox Chase Review.
I like it. Kind of (I think) sums up the way I've felt as the first of two political conventions took place, and likely will continue to feel through November.
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