I totally agree, Doug -- reading's what matters. Aloud if possible.
joanna
----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 4:22 PM
Subject: Re: Blah
Gee I go away for a weekend, & all hell breaks loose in Raynes Park &
petc.
At least I can 'get' what happened in RP...
I can understand Dave's anger, but am not sure he places his
'solutions' where I would necessarily. I don't care if everyone knows
exactly what an 'anacrusis' is, but I do want writers to value wit,
etc. So, I'm sorta with Martin here, but, No Joanna, iambic pentameter
doesn't have to be boring, but an awful lot of it seems to be these
days -- even that which is published, at least by the so called
neo-formalists in the US of A.
I would say that what a lot of these people need to do is READ some
poetry, which far too many of them don't seem to do...
Doug
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