[New-Poetry] What I witnessed

[Chris Lott]

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 19:57,  <Rsgwynn1 at cs.com> wrote:
> In a message dated 7/2/2008 9:36:41 PM Central Daylight Time,
> jjeffreymail at yahoo.com writes:
>
> Hmmm.  So let's see if there's any transitive relation here:
>
> 1) Angelou's poetry is flabby and critical attacked,
> 2) Keats' poetry was flabby and critical attacked,
> 3) therefore Angelou = Keats.
>
> Undistributed middle term.

Is it really? I need to refresh my memory from logic class.

Anyway, this gets right to the heart of the matter that will never be
resolved. The "is" and "was" are the critical terms... and I'm sure
the attackers of Keats were no more open to being persuaded than we
who don't think Angelou is much of a poet are-- and they would
likewise be just as shocked to find out they were "wrong" as we would
be if we could last 100 or so more years to check...

c