What do you do when your reader doesn’t catch the allusion you made in a poem? Does an allusion need to stand on its own for poetic quality and meaning in the poem? I recently wrote a poem with an allusion to Stephen King’s The Stand, a book I thought everyone knew. Turns out almost no one caught it. Huh.
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October 12, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Millie Mader
I didn’t get the allusion to Stephen King’s character, but your poem created (for me) an illusion of a former love coming out of the mists of the cornfield. See you Tue. Millie