I think it's because I like the sound of the word too, that I use it, very
loosely, to refer to poems that some way or other 'respond' to works of
art, usually paintings...
& who's going to tell me I can't, today?
as to rhetoric, well, no, we don't teach it as such, but I think we can't
avoid it completely, & if we can't use a 'rhetorical question' with
students at the post-secondary level, then all is lost...
I'm not so sure we can blame the lack of knowledge on the teachers in
schools though, as I know how often, year to year, they teach the same
things, to students who say 'Oh no, we never had that before.' Talk about
Sisyphean...
Doug
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
How, but thru a monstrous 'specialism', the so-called authority
of erstwhile 'professionals', have we come to leave
_breath_ out of images and _images_ out of breath, anyhow?
Roy Kiyooka
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