>poetry
>dont you think it has to come out of some point of conflict or unease in
>language?)
>Liz
You bet I do! I know in my own case the conflicts of class-ownership of
speech, of being a person with a Brummie accent, which is famously
associated with being 'thick', has a great deal to do with the dynamics of
my own writing, just as the utter inarticulateness than can descend upon the
very loquacious me when confronted with 'Authority' heelsprings my words.
Best
Dave
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Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 11:39 PM
Subject: Re: Saba's female animals
In a message dated 2/24/02 11:18:35 GMT Standard Time,
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> and at the same time his best writing has a
> character that is almost folkishly anonymous.
hmmmm - I see Hardy as a man who was mothered up and out of his own class,
and struggled lifelong to use a language that he felt was beyond him (the
lingusitic excess of the novels, the knots of sound vocabulary and sense in
poems like 'The Convergence of the Twain')
and yet he had another dialect that it took him a lifetime to access, that
wasnt validated and hardly acknowledged in the 'literary' circles he aspired
to - exactly that 'folkishly anonymous' voice that comes directly out of
music and the oral tradition
it must have been a painfully difficult place to articulate from - quite
apart from all the rest of the mess in his head!
poetry
(dont you think it has to come out of some point of conflict or unease in
language?)
Liz
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