On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Most poetry that people use is jingles, greeting cards, and song lyrics.
> Some is didactic at the very simplest level--a religious moral--but I'd
> guess that most is simple sentiment or romantic love.
>
Didactic is didactic, simple or complex.
> Of course I don't really know what John means by didacticism. Is Ozymandius
> didactic? How about Wordsworth's lyrical ballads, or Tintern Abbey, or the
> immortality ode? Or the Cantos? Or does he mean Pope's moral essays in
> verse?
The only way to be precise about that would be for John to provide an
exhaustive list. Or we could just do what we always do with words, and not
pretend there is any extraordinary ambiguity in his adjective.
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