there's no balance without at least some tension. that would be an
homogeneous mass.
Ana
----- Original Message -----
From: "andrew burke" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 8:15 PM
Subject: Re: Poetry is . . .
All art is created by tension and release.
Androo
On 15/05/07, kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Bob, I didn't say I was tense, but you people are putting me on that
> road..!
> if you mean what is tension in poetry to me, the answer is an absence of
> flow.
>
> KS
>
> On 15/05/07, Bob Marcacci <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > what is tension?
> >
> > --
> > Bob Marcacci
> >
> > Calamity: a more than commonly plain and unmistakable
> > reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own
> > ordering. Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to
> > ourselves, and good fortune to others.
> > - Ambrose Bierce
> >
> >
> >
> > > From: kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]>
> > > Reply-To: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" <[log in to unmask]>
> > > Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 00:29:21 +0300
> > > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > > Subject: Re: Poetry is . . .
> > >
> > > do I not seem relaxed?
> > >
> > > On 14/05/07, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >> Relax, KS ;)
> > >>
> > >> Hal
> > >>
> > >> "Always treat language like a dangerous toy."
> > >> --Anselm Hollo
> > >>
> > >> Halvard Johnson
> > >> ================
> > >> [log in to unmask]
> > >> [log in to unmask]
> > >> http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard
> > >> http://entropyandme.blogspot.com
> > >> http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com
> > >> http://www.hamiltonstone.org
> > >>
> > >> On May 14, 2007, at 3:15 PM, kasper salonen wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> I don't like the idea of poetry being tension-filled. tense poetry
> > >>> is
> > >>> bad poetry.
> > >>> but I get what he means, & agree, even if not with that choice of
> > >>> metaphor
> > >>>
> > >>> KS
> > >>>
> > >>> On 14/05/07, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >>>> "I placed one word beside another and finally with a great deal
> > >>>> of effort managed to create a whole sentence--naturally not one
> > >>>> that 'meant something' but one that was composed of word-
> > >>>> nuances. It was the hidden meaning that I was seeking--a kind
> > >>>> of Alchimie du Verbe. One word has its meaning and another
> > >>>> has its own, but when they are brought together something
> > >>>> strange happens to them: they have an in-between connotation
> > >>>> at the same time as they retain their original individual
> > >>>> meanings . . .
> > >>>> Poetry is this very tension-filled relationship between the words,
> > >>>> between the lines, between meanings."
> > >>>>
> > >>>> --Gunnar Ekelöf, tr. Auden & Sjöberg
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Hal
> > >>>>
> > >>>> "Balthus is a painter about whom nothing is known."
> > >>>> --Balthus
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Halvard Johnson
> > >>>> ================
> > >>>> [log in to unmask]
> > >>>> [log in to unmask]
> > >>>> http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard
> > >>>> http://entropyandme.blogspot.com
> > >>>> http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com
> > >>>> http://www.hamiltonstone.org
> > >>>>
> > >>
> >
>
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Andrew
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