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>From: Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and > poetics <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: On Gioia ... >Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 18:18:43 +0100 > >abcb has to be a cop-out. This is much the easiest of the quatrain forms. I don't think it would be a cop-out if it were used at all well. My problem is that it's too sing-song, too padded with unnecessary words, and the metaphors aren't carried through very well. For example, surely he could have found more music-appropriate words than slanted-detail-inserted. But detail is obviously there just to rhyme with scale. Btw, "Auden-and-water" is too too funny, but I thought that was James Fenton? : ) _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com