Will Dockery
2010-10-16 21:35:16 UTC
she needs to give written credit to William Shakespeare.
No, Cythera, you should be well-read, intelligent and/or "educated"enough to know that a homage to someone as well-known and legendary as
W.S. (or even Jagger-Richards, who you foolishly mention below) is
much different from "borrowing" from an obscure poet where the casual
reader is unlikely to know the reference.
That's been called in the past "trying to pass the work off as your
own", as Rik Roots put it.
that you owe it to Jagger/Richards for your phrase "moonlit mile."
The Rolling Stones have "Moonlight Mile", not "Moonlit Mile", Cythera.See above for the lowdown on that, Cythera, plus, my poem "Moonlit
Mile", has very little-to-nothing in common, really, with the Rolling
Stones masterpiece, which is, again, called "Moonlight Mile", not
Moonlit:
Moonlit Mile
So many tears on a moonlit mile
through Aokigahara forest
old man tips his snow cap.
-Will Dockery
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aokigahara
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