03-10-2011, 07:57 AM
I said it isn't poetry to me. I appreciate that for most other people it is, and poetry is notoriously hard to define so it's all incredibly subjective anyway. I don't know. Maybe I'm an idiot. Most people who agree with me on this haven't actually read a Wordsworth poem, but are rather reacting in a knee jerk fashion to everything more than a hundred years old, perhaps so they'll seem rebellious I guess. It's probably no coincidence that these people all worship Bukowski.
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe