This is one of those things, just.
Just like trying to 'define' poetry, which I admit to doing far too
often in the past, always to find something that was outside my latest,
ever widening definition, so that I had to redefine, adding further
possibilities.
I admit, still, to wanting some sign of what Pound also called rhythm,
which means that prose broken into lines tends not to cut it for me,
but Kasper's apparent dismissal of 'free verse' in is post undercuts a
lot of what he does as well as what he has said (see above), & when one
looks at such a master of line as Creeley, well....
But, of course, as I read further in my long learning, I also read
further back in history, finding all those great poems of he past
which, however much I missed of context, still spoke to me.
Trying to think of a poem without the need of any 'contextualizing'
attempt by the reader I wondered about O westron wind, but proably not,
& then Sapphos' fragments, brought to me, of course in translation, &
which seem rather 'pure' as a result, but probably not, there are so
many aspects/attitudes at work in our reading of her....
Which leaves us, happily (because the poems are still there at least)
in a quandary....
Doug
On 25-Aug-07, at 7:01 AM, Bob Marcacci wrote:
> lack of scope
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