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Re:The Most Misread Poem in America by noonespecial on Friday September 11, 2015 @01:26PM (#10204960)
It was all so much "cut up the flower to find what makes it beautiful". The latent hypocrisy of the whole thing depressed me to no end, but it was a vivid introduction to that distasteful pseudo-highbrow thing people do with everything from beer to wine to poetry to cheese.

The answer all along was simply "I like it". I like the way it sounds in my mind, the way it tastes with spaghetti. The way it rolls off the to tongue when read aloud. That's it. And that's enough.

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Re:The Most Misread Poem in America by toothbrush on Friday September 11, 2015 @01:29PM (#10204979)
Well, there is something pragmatic to be said about at least knowing why you liked something — personally, i like being able to semi-reliably pick a cheese or wine based on descriptions or memories, at least in the vain hope that it'll be above-average according to my tastes :)
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Re:The Most Misread Poem in America by Lawtonfogle on Friday September 11, 2015 @01:36PM (#10205031)
Even Love itself can be dissected and torn apart, the inner workings exposed for the grime ridden machine that it is. But that is done in neurology, not literature.
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