Is the definition saying that the causes of a poem should be if not transparent then somehow included in the poem?

Perhaps I'm being too abstract etc. here.

Luke

On 20 February 2018 at 16:59, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

I can think of a ultra condensed form: romantic poets affected fake emotions whereas modernists presented spurious intellectualism. 

On 20 Feb 2018 4:08 pm, "David Bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

I'd probably need several lifetimes to explain.

On 20 February 2018 at 15:52, Tim Allen <0000002899e7d020-dmarc-reques[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Some might even commit suicide in full view, while others are intent on picking the reader's pockets

I like that

A great many set out to bamboozle or intellectually swindle.

I don't like that. 

There's as much fraud in poetry as MP's expense accounts

That needs explaining. What exactly would such a fraud consist of?

On 20 Feb 2018, at 15:40, David Bircumshaw wrote:

Some might even commit suicide in full view, while others are intent on picking the reader's pockets. A great many set out to bamboozle or intellectually swindle. There's as much fraud in poetry as MP's expense accounts.