08-05-2011, 11:16 AM
But isn't grandiosity the whole point of poetry? By that logic you could accuse Shakespeare of being unnecessarily grandiose for assuming marriage is glorious in several sonnets.
I see what you mean about the madness verse being assumptive - I'll see if I can make it more imagistic to relieve that aspect - but the Light and Dark verse is composed of questions. Can questions be assumptive?
Just because I'm debating your opinion doesn't mean I'm attacking you for it
I see what you mean about the madness verse being assumptive - I'll see if I can make it more imagistic to relieve that aspect - but the Light and Dark verse is composed of questions. Can questions be assumptive?
Just because I'm debating your opinion doesn't mean I'm attacking you for it
"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