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Originally Posted by R. Nemo Hill
False because it doesn't "impress" you?
I don't see what is demonstrably false about the technique regardless of whether you like the result or not.
Nemo
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Dear Nemo
You are a wiser man than I, and a better poet than I could ever hope to be. Truly.
However, opinions on this one seem to be more polarised than on any of the 6 selected.
Michael Cantor placed this in the Imagist camp.
You place it in the Impressionist camp.
Two more extreme camps would be hard to imagine.
Some people think this about the homeless.
Some people think it is about commuters.
Yet others have old people waiting to die.
Without going any further, you can already see from the foregoing why this poem fails utterly.
If it is an Imagist poem, the images are not concrete but blurred and inconsistent, jarring and illogical.
If it is an Impressionist poem it fails to convey what it is an impression of.
Sorry
It's a dud
Philip