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A reply to Adam Gary Conversing with Poets: Ubderstanding Poetry

in Poetry Discussion

I write here because my reply was too long in coming and too long for a youtube comment.

Whether it be a novel, a record or a poem critical acclaim and commercial success rarely coincide. Which is a problem for critics and educators whose curriculum is influenced by critical arguments. I think the problem comes because critics don't ground their analysis and comments to lay opinion; to determent of critical arguments. In days of T S Elliot, I have read extracts from his critical texts, he was concern that his opinion not simply be conceit. Whilst analysis done by practising poets, seem to embody T S Elliot's restraint, lots of modern critics 1

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Mark Keller

-2 дн.

I have been in writing groups that TEAR DOWN what’s been created, not uplift and support it! How can anyone even have the courage to look at a poem or other pice of writing that’s been trashed even before it has a chance to live and breathe? People don’t know how to offer thoughts that encourage and inspire, without first destroying what lies before them!