unpoeticality

This verse does not lead us anywhere or develop the thought of No. 8. It turns the apparent unpoeticality of the previous verse into vagueness and abstraction, the arch-enemies of poetry.

1949, R[eginald] H[orace] Blyth, “Renku”, in Haiku […], volume I (Eastern Culture), Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, published 1967 (15th printing), section I (The Spiritual Origins of Haiku), page 137

By ‘I am the door’ he meant to say, in the poetical form peculiar to the Arab (Semitic) mind, that the new way of life and being which he was teaching is ‘the way, the truth and the life’. To understand this, as Barth and Western Christianity with their peculiarly un-Arab (un-Semitic) mind do understand, as meaning that Jesus was there advocating (or to use the American slang, ‘selling’) his own person, rather than ‘the will of my Father’ is crude, to say the least, and points to the ‘unpoeticality’ of the mould into which Western Christian consciousness had been moulded through the ages.

1967, Ismaʿil Ragi A. al Faruqi, “What Is Man? The Imago Dei”, in Christian Ethics: A Historical and Systematic Analysis of Its Dominant Ideas, Montreal, Que.: McGill University Press, part 2 (The Christianist Transvaluation), note 113, page 190