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You may think it that way of course..
But in the end, there is a product up there and he is calling it as poetry..(I think he used to call it ´people´s poetry´ . I guess, if what he wrote were not made some arabesque songs or if he was not Ahmet Kaya´s wife´s brother, he would not be mentioned in the news.
Anyway..
Of course I may. Five people may read the same poem and take from it different things. I think this is because people have different life experiences and these come into play as they read a work. Then there is politics and this can also colour someone´s interpretation or judgement of a work. Poems come in many forms, that´s part of the art, and poets bring part of their persona to their poetry too. Of course we will all have our likes and dislikes when it comes to poets and their craft.
The poet Ted Hughes has never been a favourite of mine, but I love his children´s story "The Iron Man" and it has some fantastic imagery in it. It´s not a poem and yet it is quite poetical in places.
I guess if it wasn´t for translation requests, a certain cynicmystic and your reputed hairiness, you wouldn´t be mentioned much in TC either .
Horses (not donkeys) for courses.
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