> Marcus:
> And I'm still waiting for an example of a poem that demonstrates that
> poetry is "honest originality". Any examples?
>
> Perhaps the first?
> Which was? According to one person, a poet, the first time early man-ape
> looked into the sky, saw the sun and said with awe
> ugggg
> a rough translation<
Still, this is not evidence or reasoning to support the notion that the only
thing we can call "poetry" is "honest originality" because we don't have that
primal ugggg, that one and only honestly original poem, do we? No -- what we
have is thousands of years of different languages' different traditions in
arranging grammar and syntax to make meaning in language richer, deeper,
broader, more significant, and more important. What your argument does NOT
argue, nor support others' argument for, is that it is "honest originality"
that makes something a poem, unless you're willing to say that there are no
poems except that primal ugggg. Are you?
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