But in poetry, even in a bad line, we can be illogical; language, as your
examples show, & as the rise of lyng, perhaps with the rise of language,
shows, actually does that thing:
"I die, I fall, I fail"
after all, what's a meta for?
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
Seven years' devotion
to a liberal cause
hasn't altered
the plum tree.
CK Stead
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