I suspect it's many things, & changes with whoever is making a
definition, yet, somehow or other, this sloppy set (or whatever the
term is) still has a hold on us, & we each of us thinks we know what
'poetry' is.
Every time I thought I had a definition that fit, I'd find something
that was outside the wall yet struck me, as yes, poetry.
Doug
On 25-Apr-10, at 5:20 AM, Jeffrey Side wrote:
> If it can, then we have to define what the basic element of a poetic
> utterance is. For me it is semantic.
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> Original Message:
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> But it's a very wide one, & so can contain Concrete Poetry, Sound
> Poetry, etc.
>
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