When Shakespeare ended Sonnet 65 by writing: "O none, unless this miracle have might / That in black ink my love may still shine bright," was he writing pap?

Did the Klingons' greatest bard (that's a Star Trek in-joke) ever write pap (in the bad sense)? Someone once wrote that apparently the Bard needed only to open his mouth for poetry to drip out of it.

I've not wanted to put forward too much of my personal reactions to the content, paradoxically because the poem is so subjective and invites such subjective reactions. I'm much more interested in what the author thinks than in what I think in response; and likewise when I write, I'm much more interested in conveying my thoughts clearly to others than in provoking thoughts in others that have nothing to do with my own.

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