Quotes from textbooks regarding this very contemporary approach to writing poetry.

Objectivity is:
1) poetry that is free of the poet's personal sentiments, attitudes or emotions;

2) a pattern of objects, actions, events, or a situation which can effectively awaken the emotional response the writer wants without being a direct statement of that emotion;

3) a poem that is most significant as an object in itself, independent of the facts of the composition, the activity it imitates, the author's stated intention, or the effect it produces on the reader/audience.

Well, I wonder. What do you think? There was a similar discussion recently about 'non-emotional' poetry versus 'emotional'. Does this concept encroach on that topic?

Telling somebody how much you feel about something is not in and of itself poetic.

Objectivism in poetry (as seen in George Oppen for instance) is about writing about whatever it is you're writing about, not about how you feel about what you're writing about.