06-30-2016, 06:42 AM
This response may well get me kicked off the site. So be it. When we respond to the critique given we are supposed to be humble and thankful. Generally I am. I have learned so much here. However I feel as though I must respond to the above remarks.
I'm not a good poet. Nor am I a good judge of good poetry. I know that. I apologize for not including your particular poetic heroes. Frankly I am not a lover of Whitman or Dylan. The point was, if our heroes, whoever they are, were to show up today, what would we say . Sometimes we have to extrapolate. We have to see what is meant beyond what is said,
Forgive me for taking exception.
I'm not a good poet. Nor am I a good judge of good poetry. I know that. I apologize for not including your particular poetic heroes. Frankly I am not a lover of Whitman or Dylan. The point was, if our heroes, whoever they are, were to show up today, what would we say . Sometimes we have to extrapolate. We have to see what is meant beyond what is said,
Forgive me for taking exception.