Les Than Spam
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Les Than Spam asked in Arts & HumanitiesPoetry · 8 months ago

If William Carlos Williams started off Keats but tripped off Whitman then how can I be "original"?

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  • Anonymous
    8 months ago
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    You can be original by coming up with metaphors and turns of phrase that nobody has ever thought of before. WCW may have tripped off Whitman, but Whitman never wrote a poem about plums in the fridge, and WCW never wrote one about an astronomer, as far as I know.

    • Lapiz Dominoes
      Lv 7
      8 months agoReport

      You are melloing and even agreeable - nice to know that!

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  • Man Abrier
    Lv 5
    8 months ago

    Started? Tripped off? I don't know what that means. It sounds like Beatnik slang. No one's original. Go read Ecclesiastes. Nihil novum sub sol. It's not about being original but being good.

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