The motto of the Fox News Channel is “We Report. You Decide.” The idea behind the statement is that they are attempting to report the news without bias or prior interpretation. They are claiming objectivity, in the sense of being “without bias or prejudice; detached.” Of course, claims to objectivity are numerous, extending to nearly …
Chesterton argued that it did not. Consider this, published in Gilbert magazine.
Since a poem has the four qualtities identified and haltingly addressed in this post: it’s music, its imagery, its logos, and its unspeakable quality that I’ve reluctantly and insultingly reduced to its connotations, we can develop a strategy when we approach a poem that is consistent with the nature of poetry. We don’t need to …
