Re: NastyGoon lifts a line

On Sun, 9 Feb 2025 0:06:21 +0000, HarryLime wrote:

On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 22:57:18 +0000, WillbDockery wrote:
>

On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 21:35:32 +0000, HarryLime wrote:
>

On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 21:20:30 +0000, Will Dockery wrote:
>

On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 20:44:41 +0000, HarryLime wrote:
>

Will Dockery wrote:

On Fri, 7 Feb 2025 0:04:15 +0000, George J. Dance wrote:

>

https://www.novabbs.com/arts/article.php?id=255731&group=alt.arts.poetry.comments

On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 16:15:27 +0000, Michael Monkey Peabrain (MPP) aka
"HarryLime" wrote:
>

I realized from the content of NancyGene's posts that they were
intelligent, well-educated, and better written than anyone here.
Naturally, I asked them to start contributing to the "Sampler."  And I
was right in doing so.
>
Here are the opening lines of NancyGene's latest poem:
>
"Yesterdays stack up like piles of read newspapers,
Cluttering my mind and obstructing my day."
>
That's poetry of the highest quality.

>
The opening line is very good. It's almost as good as the opening line
of Robert Creeleys poem, "The Days Pile Up":
>
"The days pile up like unread newspapers,"
>
I do hope "Dr." NastyGoon credited Mr. Creeley; otherwise that would be
something they would call, you know -- "plagiarism".

>
NG changed one word and suddenly she thinks that the line is "original"
now.

>
1) She did not change *any* words, Donkey.  Since she had never read
Creeley's poem, she had nothing to change.
>
2) There several differences between her opening line and Creeley's.  In
fact, only 3 words are the same: "up," "like," and "newspapers."
>
More importantly, the things described by their words are totally
different.  NancyGene compares YESTERDAYS to READ newspapers; whereas
Creeley compares DAYS to UNREAD ones.
>
IOW: NancyGene's poem is describing MEMORIES, whereas Creeley's is
describing TIME.
>
>

And of course here comes her fellow thug troll Michael Pendragon to try
to explain it all away.
>
Right.

>
I'm just explaining

>
You're just defending your fellow thug troll as usual and as expected,
Harry.
>
And so it goes.

>
Are you saying that stacks of read newspapers

>
I'm saying the thought wasn't really original for Nancy Gene.

>
>
Just admit that it's a great line of poetry

Yes, Robert Creeley wrote a pretty good line of poetry there.
Good enough for Nancy Gene to wasn't to borrow, apparently.
😏