--- "K.M. Sutherland" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Do any poets here care very particularly about the
> syllabic regularity (or
> exact irregularity) of their own work? Feel engaged
> with the backreach of
> this query? Take metrical craft to be the grand
> requisite?
>
> K
>
Yes. It's the affect of metrics which interests me, I
suppose, the sensual and emotional qualities of
thinking they can make. But that's not possible
through dogma (the moral quantity of syllabics?)which
is no doubt why Milton was so morally dubious in the
architecture of his lines. In a way it's more
primitive than that: I remember reading a prose piece
by Olson years ago which said something like the line
beginning in the SYLLABLE, which counts RIGHT HERE in
the EAR!!!!!!
Although I scarcely write formal verses any more, I do
care very much about the weighting of each line, how
rhythms and sounds strike against each other, and am
still mainly concerned with the making of lines. To
be honest, since the making of poetry continues to
mystify me, I can't think of how else it is possible
to work on a poem. If you're not running through the
scales in these ways, what do you do? (Not a
rhetorical question). Isn't that how poetry thinks?
Best
Alison
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