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Can I take that back? It's "each detail" in BOTH poems, innit? Did Auden write that one while he was in the States? On Monday, July 16, 2001, at 06:44 PM, Michael Snider wrote: > On Monday, July 16, 2001, at 06:19 PM, Candice Ward wrote: > >> on 7/16/01 5:50 PM, Printmaker at [log in to unmask] wrote: >> >>> Michael Snider wrote: >>>> >>>> On Sunday, July 15, 2001, at 01:18 PM, Robin Hamilton wrote: >>>> >>>> twist the normal pronunciation of >>>> DEtail to deTAIL. >>>> >>>> Two American data points: I say it both ways, and the American >>>> Heritage >>>> Dictionary lists both pronunciations, deTAIL first. >>> >>> >>> Isn't deTAIL what they pin on deDONKEY? >>> >>> >>> (sorry guys but there is no other god but the OED - at least >>> in my philosophy, all else are just regional variations) >> >> >> From DE donkey's perspective, it would surely be DE tail--a case >> of _DE >> ixis narcissisi_ (_ipse dixie_-loik)? >> >> But isn't the stress in this case a function of the meter? With "each" >> preceding "detail" in that (Auden?) line, how could it possibly end >> with the >> stress on "de"? >> >> Robin, your learn`ed opinion, please! >> >> Candice >> > > > In the Auden, it's DEtail, in Gioia, it's deTAIL. In both cases, both > regional and metrical. >