04-16-2013, 10:30 PM
(04-16-2013, 10:17 PM)billy Wrote: one line stating something is cliche is not serious critique. claims of plagiarism are taken very seriously on this site. don't infer such things unless you have proof, cliche is not plagiarism. if people want to argue those two points, do so here.Fully agree with you billy. I've come across blatant plagiarism about 4 times in the past five years (not counting shoddy attribution). Some were lyrics pulled from songs. Some were where sections of poems were copied. Most of the time they did it for an ego boost, or a school assignment.
The one I liked was where a guy quoted a Blake poem nearly word for word and asked, what do you think my poem means? It was to write an essay on the poem. It made me laugh.
That aside, plagiarism is a serious charge and I would never charge someone of it without posting the source material. Also, a single phrase may have been read long ago and placed in a work without thinking it came from somewhere else. Plagiarism is a bit more than that.
The secret of poetry is cruelty.--Jon Anderson