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Roethke's "I knew a woman" has been often anthologized.
I think the examples adduced show there's no call for forbidding parentheses
in poetry. I'm not talking about smilies.
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I used a smiley in a poem once ...
But smileys are a case of a meta[?]-orthographic form specific to one form
of non-spoken communication -- email, etc.
And they are there for an often necessary reason, to disambiguate tone which
is -- for whatever reason, even less context than in other orthographic
forms, like (hand/type)writing? -- lost in this mode.
I too, dislike them. There *is something beyond all this fribble. But I'd
rather use a smiley and look stupid, than lose a friend because I didn't
properly signal the tone in which my remarks were meant to be read. <g>
Horses for course, but.
;-)
R.
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