> 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.
Well, in order to agree that your friend "writes beautifully" but that "her
poems are about nothing" I'd want to see them for myself. Your assertions are
only assertions, not evidence. We may disagree about your friend's poems; I may
think her poems are not beautiful at all but are still about something, or that
they are both beautiful and about something, or I might agree with you; but I
cannot take your mere opinion on it to be dispositive.
So, again, how about an example?
But, further, I disagree that the world doesn't need fluff.
Marcus
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