Posted by The Arcane(VIP) on October 29, 2000 at 02:31:07:
In Reply to: A response. posted by Caecus on October 29, 2000 at 01:37:13:
You misunderstand my argument. Of course I'm not saying that non-rhyming poems are written mostly by pretentious morons... I've read plenty of that sort of poetry that I like. I was categorizing the *bad* rhymeless poems I've read, and perhaps generalizing about their authors, but I'm certainly not making any statements about rhymeless (there's *GOT* to be a literary term for this... any English majors out there?) verse as a whole. > On another note, you're arguing somewhat hypocritically here in your statement that the Critic is being closed-minded (as you did in the first paragraph) to your own statement in the second paragraph that rhymeless poems 'are written mostly by pretentious folk who think they're being dramatic and profound but come across as idiots instead.' Ergo, you're making the same mistake he is by sounding closed-minded yourself.