Good and Evil

[billy]

But isn't grandiosity the whole point of poetry? By that logic you could accuse Shakespeare of being unnecessarily grandiose for assuming marriage is glorious in several sonnets.

I see what you mean about the madness verse being assumptive - I'll see if I can make it more imagistic to relieve that aspect - but the Light and Dark verse is composed of questions. Can questions be assumptive?

Just because I'm debating your opinion doesn't mean I'm attacking you for it

getting off topic, i can't come anywhere nearing to agree that grandiosity is what poetry is the whole point of poetry. it's a pretty sweeping statement.
shakespeares time was a time of grandiosity but again thats nothing to do with this poem.

for me the ending was unusually flamboyant in it's greatness. i was merely poining out the fact (my pov) and commenting that it worked.