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- From: abenoit@sumax.seattleu.edu (CHAVALEH)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems
- Subject: Marking Post #3/abenoit
- Message-ID: <5805@sumax.seattleu.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 03:50:09 GMT
- References: <1992Nov15.124803.15676@leela.cs.orst.edu> <NIKOLAY.92Nov15143814@husc8.harvard.edu> <1992Nov16.091717.21431@leela.cs.orst.edu>
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- Again, another post to mark another avoidance. Someone may just as well
- advise Niko that yes, I am going to dog his footsteps until he answers.
-
- While we wait,
-
-
- >>>>But I believe I have learnt something by being told elsewhere
- >>>>that I write crap, and I don't see why others can't. There is
- >>>>always a very good reason to avoid writing crap: love of good
- >>>>poetry.
-
- Indeed there is. We would appreciate a little more help in obtaining some
- good poetry by some positive efforts on your part to help produce some.
- (For one or two tips, locate my original post.)
-
-
- >>Giving up writing because you are told that you are worthless
- >>is an irrational reaction. But if one realises that one is a
- >>worthless poet, giving up becomes a *moral need*.
-
- The idea that one is obligated to put away poetry because others perceive
- one as a bad poet aside, I would ask Niko just how he intends to keep
- those who write good poetry but are convinced by someone (such as himself)
- that they do not. (It is true, I am making the assumption that Niko is
- fallible, but humor me.) One would think that the danger of a potentially
- excellent poet mistaking some of Niko's comments, and thus dropping poetry
- altogether, would caution him, as he is so in favor of good poetry.
-
- >>Please note that there is nothing inherently commendable about
- >>the need to write poetry and share it; but it is imperative
- >>not to be a worthless poet.
-
- Ah, but you have just contradicted yourself. If you are for good poetry
- you surely must want it shared, since you enjoy it so and surely want
- others to appreciate it. You must even want the bad poetry shared. .
- .else, how could you destroy it?
-
- And if it so imperative that someone not be a worthless poet, why are you
- not assisting them in that positive direction (using, perhaps, one or two
- suggestions from my original post)? If you are again going to raise the
- objection that it is not your responsibility, refer to marking post #2, in
- which I defeated that objection.)
-
- The sands mark our waiting.
-
- __
- CHAVALEH
- abenoit@sumax.seattleu.edu
- (Parenthetical Conversationalist)
-