On Aug 3, 2005, at 6:26 PM, Marcus Bales wrote:
> On 3 Aug 2005 at 23:13, Dominic Fox wrote:
>> ... you're confusing the absence of a single criterion for
>> distinguishing poetry from non-poetry with the absence of any
>> meaningful distinction in general.<
>
> No, I'm proposing that there is a single criterion for distinguishing
> poetry
> from prose, as there's a single criterion for distinguishing carpentry
> from
> masonry. Carpenters work in wood. Poets work in meter. It's no dishonor
> to work in stone, but if you do, that makes you a mason, and it's no
> sense to call yourself a carpenter. It's no vice work in prose, but if
> you
> do, it makes no sense to call yourself a poet.
It's time for bed, Marcus. Off you go.
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