Naturally, I thought my comments on plagiarism–or “plagiarism,” since I am discussing what I believe to be false instances–were quite on point.

The instance of George Mason and Thomas Jefferson is of two writers intending to say virtually the same thing in a very similar way, but one of them (Jefferson) doing it so much better that the verbiage is transformed.

The instance of Caiwen and Eliot is of two writers intending to say very different things in ways that are partly similar (phrases throughout Caiwen’s poem resemble phrases in parts of Eliot’s poem), and both of them coming to very different results.

To say that Caiwen’s poem is “like” the Wasteland would be like saying that a description of the battle of Austerlitz is “like” Part One of War and Peace.