Great Regulars: Loosely speaking, these are:

1) That poetry is passive, swoony, and generally not in the business of "doing things."
2) That politics is active, gritty, and comparable to war.

Many objections can be made to these assumptions, but it's important to note first that poetry and politics are both matters of verbal persuasion--that is, both have strong connections to the art of rhetoric.

from David Orr: Poetry: The Politics of Poetry

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