Hi Jim,
It is the incredible arrogance of your basic premise that destroys this piece. It is comparable to stating that opera is superior to folk songs or jazz is greater than classical. Hubris in the extreme. The arguments used here are the same as those you decry. That which divides is always easier to embrace and understand rather than that which unites.
All poetry wanders at times, between extremes, either an exercise in tatting doilies or in the angst of stream of consciousness. Constructs without real meaning. To me poetry should appear in that no-man’s land between music, speech and art, where sound and content marry in synergy, where philosophy and intuition comfortably co-exist whether atonal or melodic.
Didactic cloth is always rough on the skin.
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