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Do We Pay Enough Attention of What We Read?

Sometimes while we read a "nice" poem we can consume and adopt the author's wrong beliefs without realising it.

For most writers creating poetry comes initially from their need to express their own emotions and thoughts using decorative literacy style.

But is it all  that? Using fancy words in order to describe something personal and yet something so common. The difference can come only from the ability of the author to find different shades in that mixture of emotions and his talent to express that in words.

In later stages the writers they can be motivated by their need to earn recognition or money. On that stage many could become quite frustrated by the fact that they have to compromise with themselves in order to be published .In this case they feel that they have to put the need of the readers on the first place and their own initial need on the second place.

Only experience can help the balancing point between these two to be found.

Is not a secret that authors which hire larger vocabulary are more likely to attract more readers, more likely to impress comparing with others who are not so rich in words. And in this competition what actually we are saying becomes second-place matter.

I have come across  some poems which from the first line engage with the beauty of the expressions. Attracted to that and not able to overcome it, the readers  easily can lose themselves in that jungle of attractive words .Many will not even ask themselves-is this author actually saying something new to me, which I don’t  know or never thought about it. It is like a girl who dresses herself with fancy clothes all the time, but if you look carefully she is not more than that.

 In that labyrinth from words, people do not realize, but often they can consume the distorted views of the author and adopt their wrong beliefs.

And this can especially can happen in case of attraction to  a very engaging ,rich vocabulary because somehow people tend to trust the surface ,which I think is natural, but this does not mean that we should stop paying attention to the content too.

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