From reid@xxxxxxxx.xxxx Fri Feb 19 20:09:56 1999 X-Digest-Num: 66 Message-ID: <44114.66.305.959273824@eGroups.com> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 22:09:56 -0600 (CST) From: Christopher Palmer > I doubt how effective culture-neutral poetry could be. Without culture > > or history, metaphor is impoverished and symbolism in non-existent. > > Doesn't sound much like poetry to me. > > > > What am I missing? > > lots! > > poetry is about emotion, expression, the soul of the poet. symbol, > metaphor, rhythm, etc, these are just tools which are used to approach > that expression. no one tool defines poetry. Thanks for the tip. ;^P Show me some poetry without metaphor and symbolism. (Haiku is not without these elements.) ---------(( Christopher Reid Palmer : www.pconline.com/~reid/ ))--------- the characters i am, made into a word complete -- Meshuggah