I agree there, Candice.
However, the fact that teachers etc have to keep on pointing out that the
use of "I" does not necessarily confer the seal of absolute truth shows that
this is an error made with depressing frequency.
joanna
----- Original Message -----
From: "MC Ward" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 2:56 PM
Subject: Re: I
> 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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