Hello Carl,
Thanks for your comments. Yes, this one seems to have many of the characteristics of a lead balloon, except that lead balloons are not abstract ;-)
Best wishes, Mike
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Ugh. Extremely abstract. I like a bit of abstraction but this is so
plain, and so intellectually vapid. There's really no'thing' for me to
get 'in to' here. It's a paradox, really: the poem suggests that "the
ideas should be quite big and interesting" and yet the poem is very
bland.
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Imagist Manifesto
No ideas but in things;
always the eye focused on things,
but not *more* things than ideas.
And the ideas should be quite big
and interesting, so please make the things
big enough and interesting enough to carry them.
Always beware of this trap:
too many things, too few ideas.
At all times remember that the things
have only been called into existence
in the service of the idea. It is the idea
which is the *raison dŽêtre* of the thing.
And above all, remember that the thing itself
is nothing.
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