beauty

[abu nuwas]

I think it is a difficult thing to elaborate on what most regard as received wisdom-- 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder' or 'one cannot argue about taste'. Almost inevitably, the reader feels s/he knows enough already, and an element of the didactic slips in. That said, there is a whiff of 'fleurs di mal', though much too much positive/happy stuff to qualify properly. Still, quite enough to discourage me from carping-- who am I to critique Baudelaire?

I did wonder about the TV bit -it seems adrift from the body of the poem. Notwithstanding all that, I cannot think of a single change I should make.