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Date Posted: 15:16:35 06/25/03 Wed
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In reply to:
dave
's message, "Re: Another for you" on 23:52:47 06/24/03 Tue
I didn't want to be the one to comment on this but after thinking about it, I decided to make my comments.
How can one call poetry and those who write poetry "speaking like a homosexual"-homosexuality and poetry have nothing in common, therefore your simile has no bearing. Also referring to any form of literature as "crap" is one's prerogative, but the basis for that opinion is probably based solely one the fact that you may not/don't like poetry. Cole, please don't see this as an attack against what you think of poetry, for that is not what this is meant to be. But rather to point out that our opinions of literature must be based on the writings and not solely on our feelings about that writing.
Famous poets include: Shakespeare, Henry David Longfellow, Elizabeth Barret Browning, Robert Frost, George MacDonald, William Wordsworth, T.S. Elliot, e. e. cummings, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allen Poe, Dante-those are all poets (American and English) whom have now died-but their works still live on and are still read. And those were all thought of off the top of my head-I'm sure if I look through my English and American Lit. textbooks I can find more notable poets.
As for this "crap going out of style"-how can something go out of style when people are still reading it? Look at Psalms, Song of Solomon, Job, Ecclesiastes-they are all form of poetry. According to Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary-Poetry is: ""the measured language of emotion." Hebrew poetry deals almost exclusively with the great question of man's relation to God."
While I must admit poetry is not my favorite form of literature, it's still literature that needs to be read with an open view, as does any piece of literature, and one must react to the literature and not just the feelings that literature evokes when deciding whether or not they like the work.
Well, those are my thoughts.
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