characters and writers

While in many cases the writer does express his/her own opinion in their characters, not all writers will do so. If a writer believes in one thing, but the audience that they are writing to believes in something else, then they may have a character embodying the consumer's belief rather than their own. Some writers write solely for the money, and so are willing to express (even to the point of supporting) another's ideals if that means they will make more money. Usually, i think that this would only be done when comedy is concerned; unless of course the writer believes mass murder is ok or something, then they would write characters that do not embody their beliefs for the sake of pure reputation i suppose.

Art

I think whether or not something is art is determined by the maker or the peice of art. If someone puts their feelings into something, creating it in order to express an emotion or an idea then it is art. In this way, even the spoken word can be art, not just in poems, but also novels or short stories; speaches, if written with "beautiful" language can even be art. Some people though may not think say, gafittii is art but there are others who do so something that is art to one person may not be to another but that does not make it less of a peace of art. Therefore, i beleive art is determined by each individual person, not only in making it but viewing it as well.

Forgetfulness

There is alot of disorder in Forgetfulness. The most prominant form of disorder was in the forgeting, "you will join those who have even forgotten how to swin or ride a bicycle. no wonder you rise in the middle of the night to look up the date of a famous battle in a book on war." The order to oppose this would be learning, rather than forgetting. there is also dissorder in the getting up in the middle of the night when you are suposed to be sleeping. the other dissorder was the structure the stanzas whre in to particular size, and there would be new stanzas in the middle of a sentence. For example this sentence "and even now as you mamorize the order of the planets," new stanza "something else is slipping away,". It would have been more orderly to have that entire sentence be part of one stanza rather than having that space in between. Therefore, Forgetfulness is a very disorderly poem.