Hi Grasshopper.
<<<"John Carley" writes: And my least favourite form of poetry (in any
style or language) is that
written from the perspective of an assumed personality.>>>
"Err, John, so much for all of Shakespeare's plays then, not to mention the
Canterbury Tales etc"
Well yes and no. I'd call those verse drama and narrative verse.
Shakespeare's sonnets I'd call poetry.
"How do you know which personality is assumed?"
I've seen The Matrix - didn't enjoy it. Why DO people wear sun glasses at
night? Seriously though: I did say it was 'my' least favoured approach - I
am not proposing that others should share my opinion. Even in the best
stuff in this style I (imagine I) intuit the experience of something at one
remove. Less skilled writers tend to interpret another's situation by their
own standards. Unskilled writers fall too easliy into tokenism (oh God,
pass the tin hat!)
'Besides, aren't you assuming a personality when you use the words "oh
beware"?'
No... trivial, contrived or downright stupid as it may sound - that's all
me, my mood at the time, and the register that came naturally.
Gadzooks! John
Kind regards,
grasshopper
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