Marcus, I have to disagree with your idea that what is said is not as
important as how it is said. I feel they are both important. For instance I have a
good friend here in the United States who writes beautifully. She can hold an
audience spellbound with her rhetoric, her rolling phrases and imagery.
Unfortunately, when examined closely her poems are about nothing. So they are
merely cotton candy, fluff in other words. Say something about something
important and say it well. Fluff is fun, but the world doesn't need it and fluff
soon melts away like foam left by the sea. I enjoyed your poem, and I told you
so. So poetry has more than one function. Sue
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