Comments on: Scopophilia

By: Anna Montgomery

Anna Montgomery — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:39:29 +0000

Thank you for your insight and close reading.

By: Ravenblack

Ravenblack — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:14:37 +0000

It’s alright, it seems it has to give someone a problem every other week. Maybe I’ll get rid of that capcha thing because it always seem to be the cause of the hiccup for some. Appreciated your read and feedback on my poem over here. Thank you.

By: Chazzy Chazx

Chazzy Chazx — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:09:27 +0000

This has a very startling clarity to it that I found enlightening. The thought you provoke is very coherent and effective in turnong the objectivist eye inward, opening upma space for reflection and something more than cold analysis.

By: Anna Montgomery

Anna Montgomery — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:20:47 +0000

Yes this weather is shocking. February in Conifer is significantly colder, here I’ve taken up jogging! As to the conundrum I see your point and greatly appreciate your comment. I hope that you feel better very, very soon .

By: hedgewitch

hedgewitch — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:52:34 +0000

A very serious look, not just at sexuality, but duality…and the whole control issue. I am still too sore to type much, Anna, but wanted to read your poem. Now I will think about it a bit more–but I do think there is an over-riding tension in male-female relationships just because to them, females *are* objects of pleasure, inescapably, and also I think part of the desire to dominate and erase the other aspects of feminine power comes from their own powerlessness before the strength of their own biological dependent/possessive urges. But obviously, this is a subject that can’t be plumbed in a few painfully tapped out lines. Hope you’re enjoying the gorgeous, California-like pseudo-summer weather we’re having.

By: Anna Montgomery

Anna Montgomery — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:04:19 +0000

My travels have come to an end for now but I am not home. I am staying with my cousin in Oklahoma. Yes, I tend to carve out lines and stanzas with pieces that continue to carry emotional weight in my life, thank you for your observation. There are too many times in my experience that these issues come up and the response is ‘this again’ as if so much of the world has changed. The state of real human women is not secure in many places in the world and there is a point in trying to find root causes of disparity, the action of societal reinforcing mechanisms, and the function of oppressive power structures in the world.

By: beckykilsby

beckykilsby — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:55:33 +0000

Anna.. I really enjoyed the sculpted nature of your stanzas. They feel carved….probaly from struggles and feeling positioned as: ‘the internalized observer’…this such a great phrase and the heart of the piece for me.

It’s a subject that needs harrying often… so glad you took it on today. Bravo.
And are you back home now after the travels?

By: Anna Montgomery

Anna Montgomery — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:21:16 +0000

Yes, internalized oppressors are the most dangerous and tricky. You’ve hit on the importance of how external reinforcement contributes to internal struggle, Thank you very much for your interesting comment. I tried to comment on your poem 5 times last night (each time it told me the word verification was incorrect – completely false). Your poem struck a chord with me as I always start on paper and work my way to a final edit on the computer. There was a vulnerability in the voice that I don’t think I’ve seen from you. I greatly enjoyed your poem, sorry I couldn’t comment on your blog.

By: Anna Montgomery

Anna Montgomery — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:16:39 +0000

Janet, as always you engage at a deeper level and open the gifts poetry has to offer. These issues, for me, require interaction, contemplation, discussion, and refining throughout my life. As a cinephile I am often confronted with a real struggle to make sense of my response to film and how it harms and helps (in the case of filmmakers like Dorris Dorrie) my feminist perspective. I very much like what you’ve said about claiming an internal voice and the director’s perspective. As long as film manipulates what empowered role can the audience play? Perhaps this is part of the increase in popularity of immersive gaming that mimics cinema. The ‘player’ fulfills a more active role in story, in many games going so far as to shape it globally.

Symbiotic peace and interdependence resonate with me they always have. Though my post-modern feminist professor considered me ‘soft’ too . Thank you.

By: Ravenblack

Ravenblack — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:32:17 +0000

I thought it was internal struggle between two facets of a character — masculine and feminine. The character of the masculine side is as such — the need to dominate and control, is very loud, the world seems to run on it, and the feminine side and characteristics not as desirable, considered weaker. Typical attitudes, difficult to totally leave behind. The two makes a whole, but so difficult to reconcile because of the difference in manner. I’m rambling again. I do not know if I got it all in the poem, but I enjoyed it and the discussions in the comments nonetheless.