[New-Poetry] subject matters

[JforJames at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/6/2007 8:39:26 AM Eastern Daylight Time,  
jeff.newberry at gmail.com writes:

 
I suppose I just bristle at the dismissive attitude some (not all)  critics & 
poets have toward the subject matter of a poem. 
 



re that point...I post this to my blog last month:
 
One of T.S. Eliot’s sillier notions was that the poem’s content was little  
more than a bit of meat that a burglar carries with him to distract the house  
dog while he steals away with the valuables. My mind-keep is guarded by a 
beast  that could tear the three heads off Cerberus. So that poet-burglar better 
be  dragging the carcass of a water buffalo.
 
Finnegan
_http://ursprache.blogspot.com/_ (http://ursprache.blogspot.com/)  
(http://www.ursprache.blogspot.com) 
 
 



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