Thanks Gerald
I'd like to think that, like you, I have learned to move away from that
metric footing. Not that I don't love listening to them when used by
those who know what they're doing (heard a fine pantoum last night).
I (of course) stole that image, from Ivan Illich on CBC, talking about
early christian usage (before what he sees as the corruption of the
faith & the Church [if I was getting his drift]).... so very likely
transcendental in some manner...
And just to add, with others, that this was a terrific week of snaps...
(the Creeley quote is from a poem for Walter Benjamin; which made sense
to me at this time...)
Doug
On 14-Apr-05, at 6:31 AM, Gerald Schwartz wrote:
> "images as thresholds" especially struck
> a transcendental note with me. (But then
> I've been steeping myself in Emerson of
> late...)
>
> And I'm seeing more and more just how
> liberated you are from the tryanny of the
> metric foot as an organizing principal...
> opting (as I believe I have) instead for a
> line in which stress governs rhythm, since
> they seem so instinctive and, without
> my meaning to imply a lack of subtlety (no,
> no especially with that "blackbird horning
> in/all ways again") I'm even going to inch
> out on a swaying limb to say they have a
> primal quality. Thank you for it.
>
> Chrs,
> Gerald
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E5 Canada
(780) 436 3320
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
Hand and mind
and heart one
ground to walk on,
field to plough.
Robert Creeley
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