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I think it would be impossible to not have a relation. Applying the term (dida,dido, blah), commiting it to memory may assist presenting data to marginalize or replicate BUT in reality what I think serves a poems purpose is creating these word decorations without over complicating what is really going on beofore you write the report. Maybe you are writing poems you can make a hoop out of and shoot a ball through to score a point...the ones cited though may just have fit into your mold by chance not by plan. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 24, 2010, at 12:35 PM, John Herbert Cunningham <[log in to unmask] > wrote: > Merely because something has a form does not make it didactic. The > sonnet, > the sestina, the villanelle, the ballad, the ballade, and so on and > so > forth, although they could be used for dida, as you put it, have > nothing to > do with didacticism. On the other hand, numerous medieval and > baroque forms > were exclusively didactic. > John Herbert Cunningham > > -----Original Message----- > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On > Behalf Of Angel Robert Marquez > Sent: April-24-10 10:14 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: didactic revival > > how would one not write dida? i would like to see an example. > seems like anything written has an intent and fits into a form > that's been > defined because of this, or why write at all. > > On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Tim Allen <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> But isn't it the ghost, or trace of the didactic - the didactic as >> hanging >> construct etc? >> >> Tim A. >> >> >> On 24 Apr 2010, at 15:02, John Herbert Cunningham wrote: >> >> A great deal of Lisa Robertson's poetry is built up on the >> shoulders of >>> Virgil, as she freely admits. 'XEclogue' is Virgil's Eclogue. 'The >>> Weather' >>> is Virgils' Georgic. Both of these are highly didactic forms and, >>> as > used >>> by Robertson, remain so to a large extent. >>> John Herbert Cunningham >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics >>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On >>> Behalf Of Tim Allen >>> Sent: April-24-10 7:30 AM >>> To: [log in to unmask] >>> Subject: Re: didactic revival >>> >>> Could you expand on that John. I've gone through layers of Lisa >>> Robertson's and pretty sure I went through the didactic layer pretty >>> quickly. >>> >>> Tim A. >>> >>> On 23 Apr 2010, at 22:01, John Herbert Cunningham wrote: >>> >>> Robertson's poetry is extremely >>>> didactic? >>>> >>>