Love this image/analogy of yours, Christopher: "a scaffold which needs to
be removed or collapses into the text....."
Judy
2008/9/6 Christopher C Jones <[log in to unmask]>
> Thanks for the comments and most especially for the critical comments
> which also address my concerns.
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> While I was thinking of a passive voice or perhaps use of verbs in the
> passive intransitive (which I read is now considered archaic) I think
> that line can be removed, so thanks Doug for this one. I suspect that
> after the first two lines what follows functions in some if not most
> lines as a scaffold which needs to be removed or collapses into the text
> in such a way that poetry is poetry and not editorial comment.
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> Runt usually refers to smaller then what is expected or should be but
> the colloquial US understanding seems to work in ways I had not
> considered. I went to the OED to check and also found that runt is also
> a dead tree stump and an old woman or hag.
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> Many thanks, Chris Jones.
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> On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 10:22 -0700, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> > Christopher, I like this, particularly up to the conclusion. A 'runt
> > river gum' is that a colloquial expression?? "runts" in the
> > States are usually dogs with, at best, more character than looks.
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