Once upon a time there was folk poetry. It never entered the bloodstream of high culture until, well, some of these poems began to be collected in the seventeenth, especially in the eighteenth, century. I'm talking about the English tradition now. And there's a basis for it, true. I mean, human beings have certain projects that transcend the class that they're in.
Intensity is one of the criteria for the best, the most powerful poetry.
So, I guess, finally what I'm saying is that I do believe that the tactical poetry is the more immediately useful poetry. He was a speaker for a different kind of French Revolution, for another stage of that revolution. So, the tactical may die young, but it is honorable to create it. Ideally we want the two kinds of poetry to become one thing. This can and does happen sometimes.