17 Jan 08
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyI don't think disliking something is necessarily choosing to not appreciate or failing to understand. I can choose to dislike something for a good reason....my own reason. I love poetry, but some poets work I simply don't like, but still appreciate their ability to express themselves. That's the point.
Perspicacious, brilliant deduction.
Guess Emily really was on the money
and ahead of her time.
Edit: Most folks dislike things they have no
adequate frame of reference for or, if they do,
choose not to appreciate or fail to understand.
Edit #2: Such as nouvelle or haute cuisine... 🙂
I don't like certain foods, either.
17 Jan 08
Originally posted by Grampy Bobby"Thy fingers make early flowers of all things." e.e.cummings.
Maybe you already know e.e.cummings' free verse poem
tiltled "nobody loses all the time" about his Uncle Sol.
If not, please check it out. What a perfect poetic tribute
to chess players. If more than one finger could type, I'd be
tempted to memoralize the sentiment in an RHP Thread.
Wha?
GRANNY.
17 Jan 08
Originally posted by SunburntWell,err,ah.... i'm smw6869's Granny. Smw hung himself in the barn due to a wager he made with Huck and was not man enough to buck up. He's still hanging there drying out. When fully dried i plan to bring him into the house and use him for a door stop. I have taken over my worthless grandson's account and simply want people to know that it is GRANNY who is posting, not smw. Kapiche?
Can you please explain this "GRANNY" thing?
GRANNY
17 Jan 08
Originally posted by smw6869No
Well,err,ah.... i'm smw6869's Granny. Smw hung himself in the barn due to a wager he made with Huck and was not man enough to buck up. He's still hanging there drying out. When fully dried i plan to bring him into the house and use him for a door stop. I have taken over my worthless grandson's account and simply want people to know that it is GRANNY who is posting, not smw. Kapiche?
GRANNY
17 Jan 08
Originally posted by SunburntReply was to phlab not to you, Sunburnt.
I don't think disliking something is necessarily choosing to not appreciate or failing to understand. I can choose to dislike something for a good reason....my own reason. I love poetry, but some poets work I simply don't like, but still appreciate their ability to express themselves. That's the point.
I don't like certain foods, either.
Agree with your viewpoint.
Who are some of your favorite poets?
17 Jan 08
Originally posted by Grampy Bobbymost people dislike being punched in the nose, but i doubt that it is because they have no adequate frame of reference for being punched in the nose, or because they choose not to appreciate being punched in the nose, or because they fail to understand being punched in the nose.
Most folks dislike things they have no
adequate frame of reference for or, if they do,
choose not to appreciate or fail to understand.
17 Jan 08
Originally posted by Iron MonkeyAlways easy to punch holes in any statement
most people dislike being punched in the nose, but i doubt that it is because they have no adequate frame of reference for being punched in the nose, or because they choose not to appreciate being punched in the nose, or because they fail to understand being punched in the nose.
if taken out of specific context and generalized.
Topic was literature, specifically the poetry of Emily
Dickinson. Debaters' technique doesn't apply.
17 Jan 08
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Originally posted by Grampy Bobbyc'mon, be honest - did you really only mean that to apply to poetry, or specifically the poetry of Emily Dickinson? it certainly looks like a general assertion - you did say 'most folks' and 'things'. You could easily have said 'People don't like the poetry of Emily Dickinson because...', but of course that's a generalisation too, and i bet you don't actually know why most people don't like the poetry of Emily Dickinson, if that is even a fact.
Always easy to punch holes in any statement
if taken out of specific context and generalized.
Topic was literature, specifically the poetry of Emily
Dickinson. Debaters' technique doesn't apply.
besides, if you were specifically talking about poetry, or the poetry of ED, what reasons can you offer in support of your assertion about people lacking an adequate frame of reference to appeciate her work, or choosing not to appreciate it, or failing to understand it?
17 Jan 08
Originally posted by Iron MonkeyExpected so very much more from you, Iron, than crass
c'mon, be honest - did you really only mean that to apply to poetry, or specifically the poetry of Emily Dickinson? it certainly looks like a general assertion - you did say 'most folks' and 'things'. You could easily have said 'People don't like the poetry of Emily Dickinson because...', but of course that's a generalisation too, and i bet you don't ac ...[text shortened]... now why most people don't like the poetry of Emily Dickinson, if that is even a fact.
superficiality and nitpicky unreasonableness. Overnight,
for whatever the cause, you have radically changed.
Whole purpose of poetry, other than pure enjoyment,
is its potential to tenderize our lives in an otherwise
abraisive and hostile and terminally malignant world.
So long, brief friend. Best wishes to you and your family.
-Bobby