Yes, I agree.
Jamie and perhaps Peter, seem to be looking at this whole thing as if literary theory didn't exist. Jamie says he accepts the "problematical" nature of the discussion, yet always avoids areas that really address the "problematics". It is like an art critic having no notion of Cubism etc, and saying only photo-realist portraits can really be called paintings.
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Tim Allen wrote:
I am not saying that the addition of music doesn't change the reception of the words, because of course it does, but multiple things change the reception of the words. There is no such thing as pure words - there is no such thing as the unmediated, the unaccompanied poem - the words act within contexts of the accompanying world.
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