Re: live cultures (was: Promoting Lojban)

[Christopher Palmer <reid@pconline.com>]

On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, SwiftRain wrote:

> > 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.)


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