Hi Michael,
I did see this on your blog, and was tempted to comment there. As one of
those who responded agin or in lukewarm fashion, I ought to say I found this
slight reformulation and further analysis more persuasive. It's a cool
look - Cool Luke in regional version - at a convention, and is backed up by
interesting samples. The only moment I found less than fair-minded was the
final phrase of:
"...it (verbal contraction) can be associated with a conversational,
idiomatic, informal diction, such as is usual in mainstream poetry, which
aspires to be taught in schools." Sorry?! The first part of the sentence,
though, might well stay afloat, and may be related not just to some
assertions by Wordsworth, your starting point, but also to the influence of
Frost's 'sentence sounds'.
I'd (there we go again) like to think a bit further about this, and I
suppose also about the motives why I and others responded with scepticism at
its first airing, about which you also have some cogent conjectures.
Best,
Jamie
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Subject: poetic diction, nature poetry, etc
The following draft piece arose from a discussion on this forum last year...
it talks about the different poetic diction in mainstream and experimental
poetry, and about the limited use of verb forms in (especially) the
latter.... I'm still thinking about this topic and any suggestions or
rebuttals would be most welcome...
http://michaelpeverett.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/id-shed-hed-wed-theyd.html
And here's a few other recent posts that are vaguely
modern-poetry-or-poetics related:
http://michaelpeverett.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/meadow-fescue-schedonorus-pratensis.html
(How should we write about Meadow Fescue?)
http://michaelpeverett.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/a-pleasant-smell-of-frying-sausages.html
(John Ashbery)
http://michaelpeverett.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/the-water.html (Gösta Ågren)
http://michaelpeverett.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/drifting-round-peter-philpotts-poetry.html
(Peter Philpott)
http://intercapillaryspace.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/two-passing-notes-on-jennifer-cookes.html
(Jennifer Cooke)
http://intercapillaryspace.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/the-illustrated-alistair-noon.html
(Alistair Noon)
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