I don't think it would have mattered where he wrote it. He didn't lose his
Brit accent over here (I heard him read just before he left the U.S. For the
last time), and his sense of rhythm would hold no matter where he was,
surely--? English is stress-based here as there, innit?
on 7/16/01 6:50 PM, Michael Snider at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Can I take that back? It's "each detail" in BOTH poems, innit? Did
> Auden write that one while he was in the States?
>
> On Monday, July 16, 2001, at 06:44 PM, Michael Snider wrote:
>
>> On Monday, July 16, 2001, at 06:19 PM, Candice Ward wrote:
>>
>>> on 7/16/01 5:50 PM, Printmaker at [log in to unmask] wrote:
>>>
>>>> Michael Snider wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sunday, July 15, 2001, at 01:18 PM, Robin Hamilton wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> twist the normal pronunciation of
>>>>> DEtail to deTAIL.
>>>>>
>>>>> Two American data points: I say it both ways, and the American
>>>>> Heritage
>>>>> Dictionary lists both pronunciations, deTAIL first.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Isn't deTAIL what they pin on deDONKEY?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> (sorry guys but there is no other god but the OED - at least
>>>> in my philosophy, all else are just regional variations)
>>>
>>>
>>> From DE donkey's perspective, it would surely be DE tail--a case
>>> of _DE
>>> ixis narcissisi_ (_ipse dixie_-loik)?
>>>
>>> But isn't the stress in this case a function of the meter? With "each"
>>> preceding "detail" in that (Auden?) line, how could it possibly end
>>> with the
>>> stress on "de"?
>>>
>>> Robin, your learn`ed opinion, please!
>>>
>>> Candice
>>>
>>
>>
>> In the Auden, it's DEtail, in Gioia, it's deTAIL. In both cases, both
>> regional and metrical.
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