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Originally Posted by R. S. Gwynn
Oh yeah, you could read Stanley Fish on the "Is it a poem?" question, but you still wouldn't learn what a good poem is.
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- emphasis mine.
I hope that 'you' up there doesn't refer to me, Sam.
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Here's a relevant snippet from the Horse's* mouth:
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Blake explains that,
"Without Contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion,
Reason and Energy, Love and Hate are necessary to Human existence.
From these contraries spring what the religious call Good & Evil.
Good is the passive that obeys Reason. Evil is the active springing
from Energy. Good is Heaven. Evil is Hell."
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think that's what got me banned for eternity from PFFA. I referred to Blake's 'proverb':
"The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction." - I referred to a moderator there as a "Horse of Instruction". Big mistake.
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To Fish, "ideas have no consequences."
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- Wikipedia. Never heard of this Fish until now. Glad you alerted me to him. As John Whitworth might say, we need more lerts. I won't bother with this Fish's thoughts on poems and poetry.