I have a keener and more discriminating eye than thou, is why.   I can spot the difference bvetween Kipling and camp-meeting from two hundred yards away. The scansion, the emphasies, the rhyme schemes, the cultural resonances are all entirely different. I am surprised at your tin ear (or eyes, as the case may be). PErhaps you are like the Tin Woodman in need of help from a Great Wizard to replace them with the human sort. On the other hand, offering to escort under-age farm girls into the great forests is probably also a risk...sigh...so many hard choices!


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