Great novels -- Wonderful poetry

[rayheinrich]

I don't actually care about the emotion of most poetry, just the information management.

    I like the "information management" part of it.  I truly think the quality of a poem's
information management directly corresponds to the quality of the poem.
BUT...
Information is defined as that which can be communicated.  As poetry communicates emotion,
emotion is part of the information that can be managed in a poem. Caring about a poem's
information management clearly involves caring about emotion.

I don't think we can be friends anymore, Wafflehunter

    Fear not, no unfriending is necessary.  As I stated above, caring about information
management involves caring about emotion.  (Besides, "not caring", just like "caring",
is an emotion.)  

And letting emotions affect your information management? How poetic.