Wanting to Say a Line

This discussion begins with someone suggesting that there are some poems that don’t merit intense interpretive attention. The element of pleasure, in the responses, is related to the element of comprehension. The desire to say something without worrying about the literal paraphrase. Responses include ideas by Paul Valéry and Robert Frost about comprehension as partial, gradual, sometimes even minimal. “Sentence sounds.” “Good Mrs. Murphy will follow me all of my days.”