Poetry and the Masses

[clemonz]

ok so what sense are you using excellence there, that precludes value?

i'm just curious how you can read so much but have [apparently] so naive a view.

Those are the sort of statements that can make you seem ignorant -- although I did not in fact call you that, I merely pointed out that it's a quality that I find deplorable. Your assumption that my view is naive is based on an exceedingly limited knowledge of poetry, language and perhaps more to the point, me personally. Your insistence on applying absolutes to something that is in constant flux clearly demonstrates your own inexperience. It's excusable if you're very young and still have that arrogance of youth that is the result of an egocentric world view.

Please don't try to play the mental health card again though. It's insulting to the number of people here who have disorders and difficulties but still manage to think and function well enough to interact with empathy and tolerance.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I believe I shall follow my initial instinct, which is to leave you alone.

i think you are more than over-reacting here. i wasn't calling you naive, i said that deploring modern poetry is a naive kind of view. and even if that's my being ignorant, it doesn't warrant calling me egocentric or arrogant, or intolerant, or unempathic.