I agree. Just the mention of Romanticism brings to mind both Bloom &
'Childe Harold'. A poem built on allusions & name-dropping works when the
reader recognizes the references and thus feels part of the inner circle.
Explain a reference and that same reader feels condescended to.
BJ
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Do you need 'a childe / is a knight's apprentice'? Those who studied it know
this, perhaps. It seemed to interrupt the tone and could be attributed to
the author not the persona.
Tone is born of text and spirit is loosed by the letter ... I like it a lot.
Andrew
2008/11/12 Frederick Pollack <[log in to unmask]>
> Thanks, I think.
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> text : poem : : letter : spirit
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