Good observation Tim, regarding Peter's post.
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Tim Allen wrote:
Second point - Riley's words-music 'lure' - yes, I agree, but surely there is no such thing as language use that can be separated from the lure of its context. This is more than just acknowledging, as you do below, the 'appropriated lyric devices'. Any poem comes to us with its contextual lures, by which I mean things extra to the pure words on the page. Some of the lures are direct: book jacket, font etc - and accompanying music would fit this directness or deliberation. However most of the lures would be indirect, or at least their deliberation would be at a further remove: the identity of the writer etc.
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