... But it's a meaningless claim to claim it's poetry where
> poetry and prose are the same thing. There is no honorific to it, you see!
> What's the honor in claiming to be a poet where a poet is just a prose
> writer by a different name? What does it get you to call yourself a poet
> when you refuse to distinguish poetry from anything else?
>
> Marcus
So meter is a form of branding (MFA credential, product placement and all of
that)? On that you are exactly right, Marcus. No honor among prose writers
faking it as poets. Protect the territory, poets, Iamb by Iamb. Oy.
Marcus, with all due respect for your command and knowledge of meter as a
subject, the implacable tone, etc., of authority in your argument, your
position and approach, I find it really difficult to take, particularly in
as much as many of the folks here are working to engage you in a flexible
give and take around issues that are clearly not iron-clad. At least, I
suspect, the many of us who enjoy expanding and testing the formal - and
many times, counter-formal - reaches of the poem. I would suggest a break,
like going to take a good look at the work on Trevor Joyce's web site - for
a particular who gives meter its due, and then some, way some!
In any case I am personally growing progressively tired of listening to your
uni-linear argument any more. Isn't it time to contribute a "Snap"? I would
like to see your creative stuff!
Stephen V
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