But who is it that does the classification?
Call me Lemuel. I watch and wonder.
If the deep-endians condemn the poetry that the shallow-endians enjoy, is it because of their distaste for the poetry or for the shallow-endians? Do they feel that to do otherwise would be "slumming"?
Likewise, if the shallow-endians refuse to engage with the poetry of the deep-endians, is it because they can't or because they don't care to - for fear of being labelled snobs?
Is it, I mean, a social question at some level?
I have no answer to this. I just write the stuff and have fallen foul of both camps over the years. But poetry in general deserves better than that. To whose gods should one sacrifice the bullock?
Last edited by Ann Drysdale; 06-23-2014 at 03:08 PM.
Reason: added a "that" at the end of the penultimate sentence, without which it made no sense.
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