The problem with poetry

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Through a timely series of fortunate events (the bump of milo's "yield" thread on which he linked to an old thread with some Frost) I spent an enjoyable morning reading Frost and Larkin and came upon this response to Achebe who had a similar but even further reaching complaint.

Leanne Wrote: 
Ah yes, you're right of course -- the best of English came from people who despised their Englishness and went off to foreign countries to try to become king/ not die of venereal diseases/ find someone to shag who wasn't related. Alternatively, let us look to 700-odd years ago, when all poets were beloved of milkmaids and other demonstrative demoiselles, but the language they wrote in can only be called English by virtue of it having been written occasionally in a garret in Cornwall, pining across the centuries for an Arthurian figment.

Alternatively, we could just work with the rich, fluid and exceedingly poetic language that we have right now, and do it properly

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Holy seesh Leanne mic drop.