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Thank you, Bruce, for another thought-provoking post! Poetry, memoir and fiction are definitely places in which a writer lovingly places hidden messages. It's important to engage the reader by not spelling things out of course. But more important is to craft an interactive experience for the reader. The reader needs to fill in the blanks in his or her own way, engaging imagination and
Dianne, your suggestion that a writer "lovingly" place the hidden messages is crucial, I think, to a story's success. There's a huge difference to the reader, I think, if a message feels imposed on a story rather than having evolved organically out of the story itself.