Closure

All poems have closure, if only by virtue of stopping. Sometimes, even just simply running out of words conveys a secondary meaning of the term. The Collins English Dictionary describes it thus: “If someone achieves closure, they succeed in accepting something bad that has happened to them.” That can be the case when inspiration fails, and by the 17th draft frustration with the inevitable casts the poem aside. Despite what they claim, Postmodern writers can’t avoid closure. Theirs is just more oblique.