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Is poetry for people with short attention spans? I can read and reread poems all day, but whenever I get 3-4 pages into a novel my mind begins to doze.

>> No.19327024
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19327024

My adhd friend, let me introduce you to the world of theatre

>> No.19327083

>>19326902
That's really interesting, anon. For me it's the opposite. Once I start reading a novel, I cannot stop, but with poetry I just space out immediately as soon as I read a single line. It just doesn't make sense, it's not sensible language. Unless I spend half a minute per line I can't even keep the words in my head, much less actually make sense of them, which is often completely beyond my reach either way.

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>>19327024
should I start reading plays?

>> No.19327095

>>19327083
I'm curious how your internal vision works, do you not see the images of the poem appear one after another?

>> No.19327098

>>19327083
I guess that challenge is what keeps me interested. I have to read and read a lot of poems before I better understand what is being conveyed. While with books I just 300pages of text to absorb and I instantly get bored.

>> No.19327108

>>19326902
verse is more dense than prose, it's the opposite. it's just more interesting to you because prose tends to be circumlocutious.

>> No.19327109

Train your attention span with long poems and short stories.

>> No.19327141

>>19327095
Not with poetry. Language shifts too quickly for me to form a proper mental image and all the descriptions end up clashing against each other instead of flowing in a neat sequence. It feels like trying to paint a picture from ambiguous instructions that are given at a completely random order.
>>19327098
It could be that. I think poems are really fun because you can really concentrate on getting something across, whereas with novels that takes far more effort. But it's very difficult for me to actually understand poetry, so I am not very fond of it.

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>>19327084
Yes, they are short, filled with memorable lines, and every character states their motives openly. They're perfect for autists like us.

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>>19327447
autism ohoy!