In that case, I did NOT provide a "label". I'm safer so!

Cheers,
 CR

--- On Tue, 3/30/10, Nancy Gish <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Epigraphs are not
> labels.  I do not think Carrol meant that at all. 
> //"Christian" or "mystic" is a
> label.//
>  
> Carrol?
> 
> >>> Chokh Raj <[log in to unmask]> 03/30/10
> 12:28 PM >>> 
> 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 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
>  
>