Salient. The Newspaper of Victoria University College. Vol. 19, No. 8. July 1, 1955
Meaningless Drivel
Meaningless Drivel
The meaningless drivel which often passes for poetry today shows the ultimate stage in this process of corruption. Break down the vision of the straight and true In form, and the straight and true in thought will follow.
As an example chosen at random, read Rimband's Hunters of Lice. Such shocking nonsense is the product of a mind no longer able to conceive the beautiful and which has last the vision of the clean and straight.
It is the same with music. Those who have gone on long enough listening to modern five prefer it, because there is a subtle unhealthiness and immorality at the heart of it, the end result of a rebellion against order and its fundamental truth.