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Prepositions, articles and conjunctions shouldn't be overlooked, either. At 08:15 AM 9/22/2000 -0600, you wrote: >Frank Parker said: > >>"Verbs are what bring language >>alive and make it move, and for me verbless or >>near-verbless poems are dead on the page" >> >>Yes. But I wouldn't throw out the nouns. I think nouns and verbs together >>are the most important aspects of a poem (hand holds, foot holds). >>Adjectives and adverbs weakest. > >bpNichol once made the same point. I'd only add that I favour active verbs >over passive ones. > >Douglas Barbour >Department of English >University of Alberta >Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5 >(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521 >http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm > > Reserved books. Reserved land. Reserved flight. > And still property is theft. > > Phyllis Webb > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%