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A great epic should take forever in its creation and telling...maybe...and a one-page epic could be possible (one page can be eternity - one line of poem that inhabits every moment in time)? I did a paper "Poetry and Star Trek" some years ago, where I pointed out the parallels in subject and composition between the various Star Trek permutations and the Iliad and Odyssey... Also that our great poetry may not be poems at all and where that leaves poems... Steve KK At 12:20 PM +1300 22/2/2001, Wystan Curnow (FOA ENG wrote: > what you mean Steve? That length ain't a defining attribute of >an epic? Who was it suggested HOWL, surely too short? I suggested length had >weight? weight equates with what? ambition, >comprehensiveness, commitment, absorption, extension, plenitude ...) >what makes length interesting for a writer, and brevity boring? > Wystan > >-----Original Message----- >From: S. K. Kelen [mailto:[log in to unmask]] >Sent: Thursday, 22 February 2001 10:37 a.m. >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: The epic: pros and cons > > >how long is a piece of string? >Steve KK > >At 10:11 AM +1000 21/2/2001, Komninos Zervos wrote: >>how long is an epic? >> >>komNinos zErvos cYberPoet lecTurer cyBerStudies >>SchOol of aRts griFfith uniVerSity GolD coaSt cAmpuS >>pmb 50 gold coast mail centre queensland 9726 >>tel +61 7 55 948872 http://student.uq.edu.au/~s271502 > >-- --