Thanks, Doug, tho any forgetting in this case is for the good.
At 10:46 AM 2/14/2006, you wrote:
>*His* verse. And it's 'lovely as'....
>
>I don't like it much either, but Guy Davenport's
>fine fun essay on it did change my bias just a little....
>
>Doug
>On 13-Feb-06, at 3:43 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
>
>>Well, Mark, as long as you did not rhyme "roots" and "boots" and go "Ovid"
>>on us with your legs sinking into the earth while transforming into a local
>>mythical tree - you will be fine and so well Kilmer. Obviously her verse
>>owns those trees and you is but a humming tenant!Sorry!
>>
>>Stephen V
>>Blog: http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>>
>>
>>
>>>Here's an aspect of meter that we never covered during any of the
>>>past donnybrooks: its usefulness for marching. No army ever advanced
>>>to free verse. So, earlier today, as I slogged through the day-old
>>>snow in the improbable forest that borders my lodgings, I realized
>>>that I was keeping cadence by humming, over and over, "I think that
>>>I shall never see-ee-ee/ a pome beauteeful as a tree-ee-ee." Curse
>>>you, Joyce Kilmer!
>>>
>>>Mark
>>
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>than in
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