Sorry, Alison, but you strike me as daft: poetry doesn't
have naturalistic continuity?! Some of it, at least,
is conversation (as is much of film). Conversation
isn't naturalistically continuous?
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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