PS - As for poems doing "more interesting" and "important" things, interests, I suppose, may vary. - CR
--- On Tue, 3/30/10, Chokh Raj <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I
> don't thiink prefatory quotations merely label
> -- they are famed to perform multiple tasks.
>
> Among other things, they can point to dreams and
> aspirations, as in this case.
>
> Eliot himself was very fond of writing epigraphs -- to
> me these did not diminish the scope of his work.
>
> You're more knowledgeable, though.
>
> Here's an instance: http://www.c3.hu/~prophil/profi004/SWEENEY2.html
>
> Your pardon,
> CR,
>
> --- On Sun, 3/28/10, Carrol Cox
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>
> From: Carrol Cox <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Eliot on Charles Williams' mysticism
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Sunday, March 28, 2010, 5:56 PM
>
>
> I don't understand the motive of
> pinning labels on a poet. If anyone
> wants to pin any label they like on any poet, and spend
> their time
> 'proving' that the label is accurte, go to it.
> I'm just not interested
> in having a conversation with them. Poems do lots of
> things, and almost
> all of those things are far more intesting and important
> than any label
> one can pin on either poet or peom.
>
> Carrol
>
>
>
>
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