On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Douglas Barbour
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> On 23-Jun-10, at 1:01 PM, Uche Ogbuji wrote:
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>>> So do you find most poets writing in free verse not boring?
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> Didnt say that, Uche; a lot of them are.
I know you didn't but that's a very important clarification, so thanks.
What I've been trying to do is be really careful about the distinction
between the formal/free-verse battle and the simple understanding that there
is good and bad verse.
I certainly don't mean to be picking on you. It just seemed an opportune
example for probing at some matters that have been on my mind.
> I find it hard to credit that Dr. Seuss's work ever came close to breaking
>> the constraints of the alphabet.
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>> It would be like calling Shakespeare a free verser every time he used
>> catalexis.
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> just a little joke there...
>
Fair enough.
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