On 31/8/05 5:23 PM, "Dominic Fox" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> My anxiety, in other words, is that formalism denies me a destination:
> either I stay on the straight-and-narrow, or turn away from it into
> the wilds, but there is little sense there that there might be other
> roads.
Hi Dominic - I see your anxiety; but I kind of assume a formal imagination
(or what I think of as one) permits you to head for whatever road you wish.
Ie, rather than a stark choice between a high and low roads, a bewilderment
of paths, there to be hacked through with a machete or wandered through at
leisure or sprung from in ecstatic heights or just to be lost in. But I
fear I am getting fanciful...or even more fanciful than usual...
I feel quite agnostic about the iambic pentameter. It's quite useful
sometimes, being so close to speech. And I do confess that I have never
been much bothered with what a metre or metrical rhythm or other kind of
rhythm is _called_. Certainly the best rhythms always have at least a hint
of the improper.
Best
A
Alison Croggon
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Editor, Masthead: http://masthead.net.au
Home page: http://alisoncroggon.com
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