"This strikes me..." and "I don't think..." are qualifiers. Let's say
that the poem doesn't seem to me to evidence the cost, whatever it
may have been. That's critical response.
I'm sorry you feel patronized. Not my intention. Which of course is unknowable.
Mark
At 10:42 PM 9/11/2006, you wrote:
>Mark: You can think what you like about the quality of the poem; whether you
>like it or not is a matter of indifference to me. What offended me was this:
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>"This strikes me as a cheap contrivance. ... This is just a parade of
>abstractions that I don't think
>cost very much to make."
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>which goes beyond the brief of critical response into something very close
>to personal attack, and besides which, assumes knowledge that you cannot
>know about the process of writing it. The little political lecture you gave
>me was more than a little patronising too.
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>And thanks Stephen and others for your comments.
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