tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post8052024144758966732..comments2024-03-27T02:55:10.109-07:00Comments on Irish Papist: On a Lenten RondelMaolsheachlannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-88996528295404409502022-04-14T14:52:14.751-07:002022-04-14T14:52:14.751-07:00You are welcome! I actually greatly enjoyed writin...You are welcome! I actually greatly enjoyed writing this piece and it could have been considerably longer. How little the world knows the pleasures it is denying itself in making poetry a virtually taboo subject... Thank you for taking criticism so well.<br /><br />Here's hoping we can gather a few kindred souls and launch an attack on the citadel of vers libre!Maolsheachlannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-33329747090158649882022-04-14T14:39:52.084-07:002022-04-14T14:39:52.084-07:00Dear Maolsheachlann,
First of all, thank you very...Dear Maolsheachlann,<br /><br />First of all, thank you very much indeed for writing this piece. It is a privilege to have my lines written about in this way: thank you for going to so much trouble with it. You have understood everything I intentionally put into the poem, and you also pointed out some things I didn't realise about it. And your criticisms are fairly made. I'm very grateful, both for your kind words and for your careful criticism. And I've nothing to add to that!<br /><br />More generally, you are quite right: this is the sort of thing that poetry needs. I enjoyed the first part of your piece just as much as I did the second. Yes, why on earth shouldn't we be talking about poetry in the way we approach films and music? Just as you say: "I just want my poem to be treated as a piece of work, not as pure sacred self-expression, immune from analysis."<br /><br />Dominic<br />Dominic Nhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10677839865135559479noreply@blogger.com