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Unread 05-15-2022, 01:00 PM
Susan McLean Susan McLean is offline
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John, I think you are beating a nonexistent horse with your discussion of appropriation of poetic forms. Why would anyone at any time feel insulted instead of flattered that people of other cultures admire their poetic forms enough to imitate and share them? Are the Malays insulted that pantoums have become popular in other languages? Are the Japanese insulted that haiku are known worldwide? Europeans who admired and imitated the Provencal and Italian innovation of the sonnet were not defaming the originators of it, not were they claiming that they had invented it, though they sometimes adjusted it to make it a better fit with their own language, such as the Shakespearean sonnet.

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