So, let's see if I've got this straight.
You are talking about poetry which can be / is to be scanned in two ways at
once, each of them strict and without the little relaxations which give the
poetic line its subtlety?
What is the point, except to see if you can? You might as well wear two
straitjackets at the same time.
That's not for me!
joanna
joanna
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From: "Robin Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 12:28 PM
Subject: Re: is dipodic a no-no?
>> OK so I'm wrong again!
>> At least I'm not alone.
>> Roger
>
> Ah, depends which dipodic you mean, but. The term does seem to drift
> around a bit, meaning something quite different (earlier) in classical
> quantitative scansion, for instance.
>
> I think Joe and I are both singing from the same hymn sheet (hm -- are
> hymns dipodic?), but I've been stressing the origins while his latest neat
> post directs towards the way it occurs in non-folk poetry.
>
> [I'm unsure where to place the comment you forwarded from Joanna. If
> there were an equivalent here to Dana Gioa among the New Formalists, it
> might just be James Fenton. Except he's a bit too daring for them. Does
> Gioia mention him anywhere, or stick to trying to rehabilitate Charles
> Causley?]
>
> R.
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