> I spit on purity of diction

Ah interesting, yes

Luke

On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 at 18:52, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Your WHAT is so bad?? How dare you use such language on a British list?

H'm. Lower level music, upper level cosmology.  Speech falling slowly from the sky.

I don't have much time for Donald Davie, yet another conservative in an area overrun with them.  I spit on purity of diction.

On Mon, 3 Sep 2018, 5:28 pm Luke, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

This got me thinking this about poetry as an integral

           Zukofsky says, in an often quoted passage from "A"-12: "I'll tell you. / About my poetics— / music / speech / An integral / Lower limit speech / Upper limit music."

quoted here. If you differentiate an integral, then you get its function, right? The function of poetry is the difference between speech and music.

I wondered how it might link to general questions about diction, that Davie raises, especially the idea of purifying speech (and prose) and enriching language; correct me if I'm wrong.

I'd guess it at saying the opposite, that poetry enriches / adds to speech (our understanding of speech) and purifies / revivifies language (as it appears in the poem). That may be nonsense; my math is so bad ..

Luke

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