Some of these comments suggest a deafness to the plain and obvious
meaning both of what Graves said and of my interpretation of it. What
anyone else, or common parlance, or critics, or list members, or
dictionaries, or creative writing workshop leaders, mean by "craft"
or "technique" is irrelevant to that issue.
To say again what I would have thought would be too clear to need
saying more than once: craft is the application of verbal poetic
skill to most effectively recreate and communicate a vision which has
been sent by the Muse, while technique is the use of verbal poetic
skill to create an artificial simulacrum of what the poet thinks a
vision from the Muse might look like if that poet had ever been
favored with one.
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