Peter Dr Lim

Born in then Malaya, now residing in Australia
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Poets Dissected

This is a serious and perennial problem with poets who use too florid language and/or outlandish imagery:

they fail to get their messages across to readers as these are lost in such self-centred indulgence.


Such poets can't tell the trees from the forest.


I prefer what Wordsworth wrote in LYRICAL BALLADS---use the language of the common person.


The first duty of poets is clarity--mellifluous words sound nice but are devoid of content---such a waste of effort!
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