A verb is worth a thousand adjectives...Socrates
At 3:46 AM -0700 22/9/2000, Sheenagh Pugh wrote:
>Some of this did ring bells. There is a kind of poem
>that seems to be produced by reading currently
>fashionable poets and then remixing their techniques
>because the writer knows that's what a contemporary
>poem sounds like, and hopes the right ingredients will
>turn it into one. "The cook was an obstinate believer
>in the influence of environment and cherished the
>conviction that if you put rabbit and curry powder
>together in a dish, a rabbit curry would result"
>(Saki). Martin Blyth, on his interesting new web site,
>complains of poems which are purely observational,
>which observe minute details with great accuracy but
>to little effect. I can see what he means, but such
>poems were perhaps a reaction against over-abstraction
>which is much worse. My own pet hate is poems full of
>Heaneyesque noun-statements and no verbs, like it was
>enough to plonk objects down on the page and hope
>they'd turn into a poem. Verbs are what bring language
>alive and make it move, and for me verbless or
>near-verbless poems are dead on the page
>
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>Sheenagh Pugh
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