On 30 May 2018, at 12:00 am, BRITISH-IRISH-POETS automatic digest system <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Don't suppose anyone wants to comment on the "evil in the neoromantic
lyric"? Pretentious, but seems only a musician could say it.

No, one doesn’t, nor on the “evil” of ordinary communicative language in other departments of chair-lift. It was ever the habit of disgraced monks to sit in cellars devising new reasons for denunciation of all that is ordinary and pleasant as “very nasty indeed`”. 

So what kind of a musician is this? Evidently one who thinks and has been to Sunday school; ordinary (practising) musicians would just say “song”. (Note semi-colon there. They are very useful and nothing to do with bowel diseases.)

Have you thought of studying poetry without any recourse to vocabulary beyond it except your own?