Getting rid of nouns and writing a whole poem that depends on adverbs as
much as most poems depend on nouns would be an interesting exercise,
joe green wrote:
> You seem wrong on Wright. Poem isn't sentimental and.... to address various comments:
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> Why should poetry be close to the way anyone really speaks? What's wrong with adverbs -- why not get rid of nouns? What is sentimental or cliche about twilight bounding softly when the twilight is linked with the ponies and there is no loneliness like the loneliness of the ponies? Why assume that he (or the poem) demands a straightforward and sentimental reading? There is as much loss and distance here as there is sentiment -- which is what complicates the poem and defies the readings here. There are two ponies. There are two friends. Maybe that's the way is was and maybe that is important -- maybe trying to get at some particulars of how it was (if what was ever was)...and, finally, given the rest of what Wright wrote why does this have to stand alone -- a rest, perhaps, and a brief one... and then a return to hell?
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> Joseph Duemer <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Reevaluating James Wright
> Hesse as Individualist
> Dangerous Dog Breeds
> Dorris Lessing
> Jean Thompson responds to Stephen King on the American Short Story
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