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Originally Posted by HumanePain
Ah, so you have no appreciation for the love poems of Edgar Allan Poe or Samuel Johnson or Emily Dickinson? Tsk tsk tsk.
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We both know that those poets are anomalous. I judge by majority, and when people define something as a love poem, I interpret that as a pejorative because any poem revolving around love by a capable poet has certain ambiguity and something different about it for a different context. Love poems on the whole are the generic "I love you. My blackened soul yearns for you." etc. etc. yawn.