Once again, have to agree with Bob here. Like him I think you've all
been wasting a lot of words talking about two different things. Been
entertaining though.
Tim A.
On 2 May 2010, at 02:15, Bob Grumman wrote:
> Berrigan and Ashbery lack naturalistic continuity because
> of their use of jump-cuts. Which you may call non sequiturs
> or specimens of parataxis if you don't like plain English, and
> you don't believe, as I do, that what I call the jump-cut in
> poetry is more radical than the classical parataxis (although
> I could easily be wrong in this, not being too familiar with poetry
> before 1550 or so, especially poetry not in English).
>
> Even if poetry does lack "naturalistic continuity," surely
> conventional poetry has some kind of continuity a
> "jump-cut" might be said to break? And I would claim that
> I'm surely not the only one using the term in poetry as
> I do.
>
> --Bob
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