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   mpsilvertone@yahoo-dot-com.no-sp) posted:   
   > Will Dockery  wrote in   
   > news:1770240082-3274@newsgrouper.org:   
   >> mpsilvertone@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (HarryLime) wrote in   
   >> news:FuidnT9X2fAfNB70nZ2dnZfqnPadnZ2d@giganews.com:   
   > > Will Dockery wrote:   
   >   
   > > To the Sea Angel   
   > >   
   > > Riptide waves,   
   > > there goes the sea angel,   
   > > right above the waves.   
   > >   
   > > These mystery years,   
   > > where would I be without them?   
   > > What if I'd stayed happy?   
   > >   
   > > Years lost,   
   > > these last few I've played catch up,   
   > > drifting from the shore.   
   > >   
   > > Barnacles on an olive shell,   
   > > brain choral in my mind.   
   > >   
   > > Instrumental tune,   
   > > made by the incoming waves.   
   > >   
   > > I tossed a starfish back in,   
   > > watched it twirl away,   
   > > and thought of you.   
   > >   
   > > -Will Dockery (1997)   
   > >   
   > > I'd always assumed your "sea angel" was a girl.   
   > >   
   > > Again, that's correct.   
   > >   
   > > Yet you posted a romantic shot of you and P.D. Wilson sharing a   
   > > sunset moment on the beach as an illustration for you poem.   
      
   Okay, but that's still just in your imagination.   
      
   > Dockery: Not really, that's just your imagination.   
   >   
   > MMP: That's the message you create and broadcast when you juxtapose the   
   content of your poem with the image you've attached.   
   >   
   > On its own, the poem would appear to be a romantic (and highly romanticized)   
   remembrance of a female lover.   
   >   
   > On its own, the photo would appear to be to male friends standing on the   
   beach.   
   >   
   > But when you *present* the two in conjunction with one another, you   
   effectively combine them together to create a *new* interpretation that   
   doesn't exist in either when considered individually.   
   >   
   > This is the basic principle of *montage.*   
   >   
   > It's also an artistic device that any person familiar with artistic theory   
   will immediately recognize.   
   >   
   > So, no -- it isn't just my imagination.   
   >   
   > My response was *created* by your juxtaposition of the poem with the photo.    
   *You* created my interpretation -- not me.   
      
   Okay, fair enough, but it's still just your interpretation, from your own   
   imagination.   
      
   > This is a response to the post seen at:   
   > http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=699495610#699495610   
      
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   https://www.reverbnation.com/willdockery   
      
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