This creates a problem when our experiences are circular. When you get up to speak at a meeting and your throat is dry, your temperature rises, little beads of perspiration form on your brow and upper lip, maybe your hands get moist and your throat gets tight. All of these things happen at once, but you can t write about it unless you take them one at a time. Doing that places greater and lesser importance on the order of the information and the details that you provide. This causes a problem when our experiences are a round whole and our writing is linear.
Some poets talk about closing the circle in their poetry.
It means that you come back to the beginning and are able to present a whole picture for the poem. I ve done this in the Last Picnic by setting up a picture of a poem and then stepping outside for the last line and telling the reader that the relationship won t last until winter thus closing the picture by presenting a greater whole. In Madison, Wisconsin , I start by presenting a picture of a woman eating ice-cream while watching the happenings in the street. I step back from the poem in the last line to show how constant this picture is. Which points out the irony of the song, thus moving the picture to a greater view.