Welcome!
Hello to all! For those of you who know me, and to those of you who don't, I'm The Black Knight. I'm an actual published poet (ok, only one poem that I wrote in 6th grade and it was awful, but hey!) and have a love for poetry. Unlike most poetic people though, I don't believe poetry should be analyzed. Poetry, like every art, is an outer expression of what the artist has on the inside and is therefore primarily created for the artist/poet/author/composer. However, each person will pull something different out from the art and that is the meaning they find in it. That meaning can not be denied to them or argued, regardless of whether the meaning was the author's intent or not. That being said though, only the author's original intent is the true meaning of the piece.
For instance I had a friend read one of my poems and think of their ex-girlfriend. Was my poem written for that person? No, but that is what the poem caused them to think about. Does that mean they read my poem wrong? No, they read it differently than how I wrote it and drew from it something for them self. Their thoughts in no way alter the meaning of my poem but instead help take my art and make it personable to them. I could have six different people all arguing six different meanings for one of my poems, even one arguing that there is no meaning but no matter how much they argue or draw connections to other points and times in my life, their arguing does not change the original meaning of the poem. Poems may have individual meanings to each person who reads it but the true meaning of the poem is what the author intended.
However, if the meaning of the poem strays too far from the author's original intent it ceases to hold any validity. Granted it may be what the individual who read the book got out of it but since it has strayed so far from the author's original intent it has ceased to become valid.
Same with life. God creates us, He is the author of each person and our meaning, our identity is wrapped up in His purpose for creating us. We are called to glorify God. Now for one that may be by becoming a missionary and living in the jungle sharing God's word with illiterates. For another that may be by being a pastor and feeding His sheep. And for another that may be by raising her children up in the way they should go. Each finds their own purpose within the ultimate purpose that God has for all. We must be careful to read God's word, His art, seek out meaning for ourselves within it but listen, pray, and ask God to direct us so that we won't be mistaken and think that we are following God when we've strayed from Him. But now that I've probably bored you with my views on art, life, and the like...enjoy the work!
You may notice that much of my poetry is slanted toward talking about how great a certain person is. While for the poems this person is a human; in my life, God, the Lord Jesus Christ is number one. No one comes close. The problem is, God is so great that no words I can say or write will ever describe Him. Some of the poems are geared toward glorifying God but those are simply my meager attempts to put into words the indescribable. Please understand while you're reading the poems that the only reason they are geared toward the love of a human is that there is nothing I can say that will come close to the type of love, devotion, adoration, attention, and glorification that God deserves.
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