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Unread 04-04-2009, 10:37 PM
Janet Kenny Janet Kenny is offline
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Originally Posted by E. Shaun Russell View Post
No offense intended to anyone, but I REALLY hate it when there are statements to the effect of: "Oh, I know who wrote this one!"

When it comes to a bake-off like this, the "who" is completely irrelevant until the ballots are tallied. These should be judged solely on the merits of the poems, rather than on the presumption of who wrote it. Not that anyone is coloring their critiques because of their suspicions about the poets...but I've noticed comments like that in quite a few of these threads now, and they annoy me to no end! The POEM is paramount. The POET is, for now, irrelevant.

/soapbox.
That's true, except if there is a style that connects and explains it is hard to ignore that fact. In a one-off contest it is indeed irrelevant. No names were dropped during the making of this commercial.
Apologies.
Janet
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