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> I still hold by, very much so, the grammatical disruptions of 'modernism', > for me they help lift poetry away from the threat of being merely > descriptive or anecdotal, and open 'voice' into 'voices'. > > Best > > Dave Nice formulation, Dave -- poetry as deviant language. Like it. But isn't there something cyclic about the shifting relationship of language in poems to language in "ordinary" speech? The specialised language of Old English poetry being followed by the simpler medieval lyrics. Wordsworth and the Romantics reacting against the specilisation of the language of the post-Augustans with a call for "the real language of men". Most recently, the nineties folllowed by modernism followed by Auden then the Moment then ... Bit over-simplified on my part, I suppose, but just a thought. Robin