Hi Joanna,
You're right, I think, to view "I" as inevitably
iconic and constructivist, but what I was responding
to in Jon's post was the "in poetry" part. It doesn't
seem to me that using "I" in poetry (as opposed to
drama, say) marks a major difference among the
possible pronouns OR the relevant genres.
Candice
--- Joanna Boulter <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Isn't any use of "I" to some extent an artifice, a
> construct? If I say "I",
> I'm meaning my ideas of myself, which almost
> certainly don't align with
> other people's views of me.
>
> joanna
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "MC Ward" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 2:26 AM
> Subject: Re: I
>
>
> > Why poetry, in particular? Isn't the mask an
> artifice
> > of art, and doesn't its assumption occur as
> well--or
> > even better--in drama/acting and in fiction? To
> say
> > "I" in such generic contexts is to deny, on the
> one
> > hand, the very singularity of the first-person
> > singular voice while ostensibly promoting the
> > (generic) singularity of, say, poetry.
> >
> > Candice
> >
> > >
> > --- Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> In poetry, to say "I" is to put on the mask.
>
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