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Valdemar · 04-20-2004, 02:36 PM

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Originally Posted by spin

pope fiction: He didn't mean any disrespect, he was proving a point that content is a big element of art.

I have never claimed that content is non-existent in a literary work, but that the art is not judged on the content.

*cough* bullshit.

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Sounds like you got this stuff from a Barron's Notes on how to appreciate litritchure.

You chose to attack me instead of the issue. You have no right to come back now and make such a ludicrous claim.

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No, he was trying to be reductive and didn't give the Hopkins poem any respect. This is endemic of the problem I was attempting to highlight.

What problems have you highlighted when you simply refuse to deal with my initial post? When you can't answer my questions, you simply dismiss them as "rhetorical." Why should I "give" the poem respect when you have simply used it as a club to attack me in the first place? When I finally did address the issue of content being a very important part of art, you play the raw prawn and accuse me of being "reductive" and showing disrespect. Wow.

Valdemar · 04-20-2004, 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by spin

He had overlooked my previous example of the Rape of the Lock as to relevance of content for judging the literary content of a text.

And how, exactly, do you know what I have read and not read? You are truly amazing, spin. You attack me and not the points I make and then have the audacity to expect me to comment on YOUR points!

IT'S incredible, and IT'S my opinion, regarding ITS poetic merit. Get it, spin?

Wyz_sub10 · 04-20-2004, 04:17 PM

This thread needs a major clean up. I doubt it will re-open, so I encourage those seeking to resume a civil debate on the matter to begin a new thread.

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