a point arose about this is not poetry

[billy]

Thanks for realizing that Tom, and it is a wonderful cunt hair of a distinction.

I think the point is being missed by getting all bent out of shape about labels. The point really is, does this work better as prose, or does it work better as poetry. I think only people who have a natural prejudice of one over the other would be bothered by having it characterized as this or that. Just because we cannot create a concise easy definition that separates one from the other doesn't mean such separation does not exists, just as there are any number of areas related to poetry that cannot be rationally and logically explicated, or even if they can it would take nigh on a book to encapsulate such an explanation. I would think that it is generally understood that we rely on our many years of experience to make such judgments, as that is hard won knowledge that cannot be had from reading an instruction book.

However, if the point is that poetry is better than prose and therefore it is an insult to characterize it as prose instead of a poem, you shall get no satisfaction from me on that point. I will ask this question for you to ponder.

If the writer thinks what they have written is a poem, and a critic thinks that it is prose, is the writer always correct, and thus are in the right to be insulted to have their opinion challenged?

Dale

sorry dale, it seems toms the one we should all hate

i think they have the right to be insulted about anything but sometime having the right to do something doesn't mean you're actually right about what you thought you wrote.