Successful authors are said to see the same-self, soul on a white page and project the right letters. Something in the words that are chosen causes images to become coherent. (Rosenberg, 2010) What is it that certain thing that makes literature interesting? Creative writing is anything where the purpose is to inspire thoughts, feelings, and emotions rather than to simply relay information. (Hale, n.d.) What is the creative proocess? What is the aesthetic system that forms active participation with an idea? Meanings assigned to symbols and intentions assumed behind the will to receive pleasure are what form a theme. Everyone comes with an understanding. A creator of literary art might explain a moral or fact of life with words in stories or poems. Literature stimulates the mind, has the potential to influence action, and to engage in it with prolific intention is like downloading existential understanding to your soul. "Poetry exists to be heard, to be listened to for the echoes of life experiences that it presents." (Clugston, 2010)
Two poems with the unique discovery sensation, to be explored later in the paper, that display cryptic information of the kind are "You, Reader" (Collins, 2004) and "Poetry" (Neruda, 1964). "You, Reader" is just as the title suggests, it is about the relationship between reader and writer. It supposes a parallel in thought calling the two "...known and unknown / to each other at the same time." This literary work plays with the concept of de ja vu. In the opening line saying ("I wonder how you are going to feel / when you find out / that I wrote this istead of you,") the author suggests that he wonders what the reader will wonder upon reading. This curiosity finds the question of "what is this?" Collins had said in a lecture that he wasn't sure of what he should write about, so, he wrote about you. Preferring lyrical simplicity to abstruse intellectualism, Collins combines humility and depth of perception, undercutting light and digestible topics with dark and sometimes biting humor. (n.d., 2012)
It comes from and offers an awakening of 'I am you as you are me as we is us is them.' revelation, a theme of metaphysical implication. In another line, "('the rain-soaked windows), suggests the mood Collins may have felt while writing. Rain can be a symbol of sadness, and windows call to attention by giving vision. The world of Formation is the next supposition in ("but, listen—it was just a matter of time / before one of us happened to notice the unlit candles / and the clock humming on the wall.) And, the World of Action, what is the most creative 'recognition'? ("after all these years")
"Neruda's "Poetry" springs from his personal experience, but it also describes what compels a poet to write. He explains that becoming aware of the impulse to create poetry is like discovering a person who is looking for you. In Neruda's case, Poetry appeared suddenly ("I don't know where / it came from"), without speaking ("they were not voices"), and then made contact ("it touched me")." Here, the idea is summarized that Creation is something from nothing. What is this nothingness that makes something appear, rather, what 'gets the ball rolling'?
Creativity is akin to reporting discovery, either particular or general. "Creativity involves being imaginative, going beyond the obvious, being aware of one's own unconventionality, being original in some way. It is not necessarily linked with a product-outcome." (Craft, 2000) Neruda writes about facing the pen, ("there I was without a face") and later ("and I wrote the first faint line, / faint, without substance, pure"), telling how, I believe, this particular work began to be revealed. And, what is being revealed?, ("nonsense, / pure wisdom").
Billy Collins was interviewed in 2012 about his poetry. Collins related that poetry can stand by itself. "If it's written with an ear," says he, "it sort of writes it's own music." He revealed a story about a little girl that came up to him and said, "You know, poetry is harder than writing.", which he found "both erroneous and humerous." Forgetfulness is a newer poem about the pineal, ordinary, and unlikely 'window' through "we kissed the name of the nine muses goodbye and watched the hydrotic equation pack it's bag" and "even now as we begin to memorize the order of the nine planets.", we are unaware of our creative levels, large or small.
Pablo Neruda gave an interesting illustration of meekness in creativity. "Writing poetry, we live among the wild beasts, and when we touch a man, the stuff of someone in whom we believed, and he goes to pieces like a rotten pie, you... gather together whatever can be salvaged, while I cup my hands around the live coal of life.", says he. His poetry is more dramatic and sensual. Neruda is past-progressive, and Collins is present-progressive. Both artists are distinguished with a pen.
These poems differ structurally in one feature, and that is setting. "The setting in a narrative is often a feature that attracts the reader’s imagination initially. Setting is the time or in which the action occurs. It puts boundaries around the action and defines the environment in which conflicts can be witnessed and character development observed." (Collins, 2010) "You, Reader" is set in the present tense as told in the like ("I wonder..."), and "Poetry" has all verbs in the past tense. This effects to where the reader's vision is aimed.
The creative process is the life revelation of bestowal. There is a systematic projecting of desire by which creativity can be methodologically diagrammed. It is called the Tree of Life. It is divided into four, spiritual worlds; they are Emanation (idea), Creation (You,), Formation (poetry), and Action (Reader). The "World" of Emanation corresponds to thought and is synonymous with the term "closeness." In literature, this "World" happens as brainstorming. It is called the closest to Divinity. The "World" of Creation defines specific form and function, i.e. personality, of the amorphous energy of thought. The "World" of Formation, also known as intellect, is where analysis is given to different qualities, and these qualities are combined and formed into archetypal, conceptual compositions with a view towards various, specific applications, as ("the ivy wallpaper,") in You, Reader. The "World" of Action is the physical reality, where the results are judged according to how well they perform their specific purpose, which was previously conceived and preformed, in actuality. How Poetry comes to us.
When a person reads literature, the perception happens much the opposite of how desire is projected into stories or poems. The reader observes activity, forms a personal relativity, creates an understanding, and then emanates what has been absorbed through changes made in perception. These two directives are the relationship between reader and writer that Collins wrote about in "You, Reader." They are the reflection of what "came" in Neruda's Poetry.
In conclusion, creativity and the creative process is an ebb and flow of sharing and receiving. One cannot exist without the other. The quality of progress made or not made depends on the intention behind the action. The word create means to bring into being or to produce. If, then, literature is creative, it means an investment has been made into a new form or function. When a person comes to an epiphany through literature, the new knowledge will inspire more innovation, and the chain is never broken. The appearance of new ideas is flowing from the springs and brooks and ponds to the rivers, lakes and oceans. It just takes initiative to make it happen. What Collins and Neruda offer the world in poetic form is introspect of the express, objective truth into what kind of desire creates.
REFERENCES:
Craft, A, Creativity across the primary curriculum, Routledge, London, 2000
Clugston, R. W. (2010). Journey into literature. San Diego, California: Bridgepoint Education, Inc.
Collins, Billy (2004); You, Reader
Collins, Billy (June 8, 2012); TED Radio Hour: Billy Collins: When does creativity start and end?
Hale, Ali (n.d.); Creative Writting 101, retieved from www.creativewritingtips.com
Neruda, Pablo (1964); Poetry
Rosenberg, Moshe (2010; Introduction to the Hebrew Letters, Kabbalah Center
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