Good point, Tad--and one I'd never considered.
Certainly the other genres aren't subjected to the
assumption of autobiography that poetry is.
Thanks,
Candice
--- TheOldMole <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Candice -- I agree, but perhaps it's worth pointing
> to in regard to poetry,
> because people expect the "I" to be "confessional"?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "MC Ward" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 9:56 AM
> 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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