04-20-2011, 12:54 PM
Just seen the edit you made to your original comment with the Anne Sexton poem. I would have seen it sooner if you'd added it to your last comment
Were any lines taken directly from the original Dubliners song (which I've never heard, by the way; when I first read the poem a few years ago I thought she was referencing like an old folk song or something) though, or was it just based on it? Either way, it may have been fine for Anne Sexton but it just isn't for me. I'm sorry but I prefer having the explanation at the end. When Eliot paraphrased the original line he was accused of plagiarism, and I don't want the same charge levelled at me (though I know I don't have quite the same profile as Eliot
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Were any lines taken directly from the original Dubliners song (which I've never heard, by the way; when I first read the poem a few years ago I thought she was referencing like an old folk song or something) though, or was it just based on it? Either way, it may have been fine for Anne Sexton but it just isn't for me. I'm sorry but I prefer having the explanation at the end. When Eliot paraphrased the original line he was accused of plagiarism, and I don't want the same charge levelled at me (though I know I don't have quite the same profile as Eliot).
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