*His* verse. And it's 'lovely as'....
I don't like it much either, but Guy Davenport's fine fun essay on it
did change my bias just a little....
Doug
On 13-Feb-06, at 3:43 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> Well, Mark, as long as you did not rhyme "roots" and "boots" and go
> "Ovid"
> on us with your legs sinking into the earth while transforming into a
> local
> mythical tree - you will be fine and so well Kilmer. Obviously her
> verse
> owns those trees and you is but a humming tenant!Sorry!
>
> Stephen V
> Blog: http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
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>
>
>> Here's an aspect of meter that we never covered during any of the
>> past donnybrooks: its usefulness for marching. No army ever advanced
>> to free verse. So, earlier today, as I slogged through the day-old
>> snow in the improbable forest that borders my lodgings, I realized
>> that I was keeping cadence by humming, over and over, "I think that
>> I shall never see-ee-ee/ a pome beauteeful as a tree-ee-ee." Curse
>> you, Joyce Kilmer!
>>
>> Mark
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>
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