Candice -- I agree, but perhaps it's worth pointing to in regard to poetry,
because people expect the "I" to be "confessional"?
----- Original Message -----
From: "MC Ward" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 9:56 AM
Subject: Re: I
> Hi Joanna,
>
> You're right, I think, to view "I" as inevitably
> iconic and constructivist, but what I was responding
> to in Jon's post was the "in poetry" part. It doesn't
> seem to me that using "I" in poetry (as opposed to
> drama, say) marks a major difference among the
> possible pronouns OR the relevant genres.
>
> Candice
>
>
>
> --- Joanna Boulter <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> Isn't any use of "I" to some extent an artifice, a
>> construct? If I say "I",
>> I'm meaning my ideas of myself, which almost
>> certainly don't align with
>> other people's views of me.
>>
>> joanna
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "MC Ward" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 2:26 AM
>> Subject: Re: I
>>
>>
>> > Why poetry, in particular? Isn't the mask an
>> artifice
>> > of art, and doesn't its assumption occur as
>> well--or
>> > even better--in drama/acting and in fiction? To
>> say
>> > "I" in such generic contexts is to deny, on the
>> one
>> > hand, the very singularity of the first-person
>> > singular voice while ostensibly promoting the
>> > (generic) singularity of, say, poetry.
>> >
>> > Candice
>> >
>> > >
>> > --- Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> >
>> >> In poetry, to say "I" is to put on the mask.
>>
>
>
>
>
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