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Benny Bunter replied to the thread American Artlessness.Melville and Whitman were artless in some ways but not others, I can get what @luka means when he describes them as that. But not Frost. -
Benny Bunter replied to the thread American Artlessness.You could only come to the conclusion that Frost was artless, in any of its various definitions, from the abolutely shallowest of...
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Benny Bunter replied to the thread American Artlessness.I don't think you can really call him a poseur. He was interested in and highly valued rural life and work, he had experience of owning...
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Benny Bunter replied to the thread American Artlessness.I wouldn't know, haven't touched it for 3 or 4 years now
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Benny Bunter replied to the thread American Artlessness.Good read. I liked this bit, which is why I mentioned negative capability earlier. "Some people may think they have the answer, but I...
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Anyway. Back to Frost. Found this from Paris Review that I found interesting about how Frost is more complex than he’s often given...
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Benny Bunter replied to the thread American Artlessness.I mean, it's fair enough, reading poems is really hard and I'm not very good at it myself but...
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Benny Bunter replied to the thread American Artlessness.You're playing daft word games because you don't know how to read.
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Claiming the sonnet is rinsed out is like saying everyone's fed up with wearing doublets.
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Artless = unaffected. Irony is not an affectation. An example of an affected poet is Mr Toilets. Ashanti, ashanti kumbaya shish kebab.
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Benny Bunter replied to the thread American Artlessness.What's the point of talking about people who've never read them? Lol!
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Benny Bunter replied to the thread American Artlessness.Words tend to have several definitions with nuanced differences between them. But you know that already. I'd like to know why you think...
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Benny Bunter replied to the thread American Artlessness.So why do you think Robert frost was artless?
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Benny Bunter replied to the thread American Artlessness.I was referring to fashion. You don't have to been alive at the time to be able to look back and see when it was popular before being...
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Benny Bunter replied to the thread American Artlessness.Why is robert frost artless then?
