people take the word 'metre' too seriously. wasn't it Eliot who said
there's no escaping metre, only mastery of it?
metre is inescapable. rhythm IS metre, or metre is just a way of
classifying rhythm. I didn't mean prosody, using metric schemes, but
the broader sense.
KS
On 05/06/07, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Always, in fact.
>
> But Kasper, I'm now even more unsure of what you mean. You seem, most
> of the time, to not be interesting in trad verse, yet refer here to
> metre, etc. I would argue that 'music' in poetry emerges from rhythm,
> sound patterns, etc., can include metre in some cases, but, as Pound
> argues, rhythm is the key, & isn't necessarily metre, but needs to be
> present in a way it is not in prose.
>
> His articles from early in the 20th century are still a good place to
> begin thinking these things through....
>
> Of course, your fav. wcw. had some intriguing things to say about
> rhythm & sound, too.... especially as he attempted to discover an
> American metric in his later poems....
>
> Doug
> On 4-Jun-07, at 9:53 AM, kasper salonen wrote:
>
> > haha, wonderful quote Hal.
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