What I found interesting about this whole thread is that it never really turned into a discussion but degenerated into a donnybrook between two or three people who were not even interested in disucssing the topic or making it a real discussion. I posted a couple of comments which were blithely ignored. The main posters were so engaged in an argument that they really did not want to do anything else but that. I thought it was going to be a real, if spirited, discussion of the subject matter. But it turns into a sort of argument resembling an IM exchange and why waste your time trying to contribute if you're outside the little circle of quarrelers.
This is the thing I find frustrating about Eratosphere. I would really like to discuss poetry but just can't seem to break into the magic circle--either for discussion or even for fights. I think I'm not the only one on the list for feels this way.
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