These comments are very interesting and variously demonstrative of the differences between "how I see things and how things really are". What differences do you think it would make if the forums were explicitly marked as being for "empirical" and "qualitative" critiques respectively? Do you think it would improve anything? Or would everyone (as I imagine) put their poems up for qualitative critique? (I mean, we're all first-class craftsmen and women here, aren't we? We don't need to be marked on grammar or meter, do we?)
Janet—
Please show me how my original post constitutes an "attempt to categorise and compartmentalise poems". (What is the difference between categorise and compartmentalise, by the way?) Unless I've misunderstood myself, my original post is an attempt to instigate a discussion of perceived differences in critiquing between the Sphere's two metrical forums. (Note: I make the assumption that you are responding in context, and not just shooting into the air.)
[This message has been edited by Mike Todd (edited September 04, 2008).]
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