01-23-2012, 07:41 AM
The poems were "on topic" as they were comments on "beauty".
They weren't intended as examples of it; though, it seems to me,
that would be "on topic" as well.
The first poem was on the subjectivity of "beauty". The second
two were about "beauty" as a commodity.
It seems to me that the 'beauty' in poetry is the same 'beauty' that's
found everywhere else. And, as the first poem said, beauty is evoked
by something you liked for a specific reason (or your parents or
society or evolution did and you learned it from them/it/it). Later,
having forgotten the reason (or having never known it), you are left
with just the feeling. (Like learning to catch a ball, after a while you
don't have to think about it.)
Beauty is probably a positive motivator like the taste 'sweet', and like
the negative 'pain' and taste 'bitter'. We evolved to be able to feel it
because it helped us survive.
P.S. There's no reason that comments, especially on a 'poem' site, need
to be in prose.
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