People have asked me why I have such a down on so-called literary folk and say they are appalling people.
This picture is one of the reasons. They are for the most part ill-mannered, insolent, and self-opinionated pigs who put down people like Wordsworth and Shelley. Will they be remembered by anyone in two hundred time like these great poets? Somehow, I doubt it!
Heard at a Writer’s Workshop.
Your poem has too many images.
It doesn’t say anything to me.
I suggest you cut out all
the images except this one.
What you do with that is your
problem – perhaps you could write
a completely different poem
(we will be kind enough to believe
it came from your
own head
and was not rammed
down your throat
by Us), and then we
can play
the game of Spot the Cliché.
By the way,
I liked your poem
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