Very interested to see comments from Robert Sheppard, Ken Edwards et
al re use of narrative in poetry.
Doesn't this go back to Northrop Frye and Propp on the morphology of
folk tales (for those with a critical background)...?
But, I'd also prompt that the diaristic or observational journal, with its
phenomenological basis, has some formal affinity, picking up on
R.Sheppard's musical analogies, with the symphonic
poem, musically (Liszt, R. Strauss) or the [jazz] improvisation more than
the deliberative character of a beginning-middle-end 'story' or
standard sonata form.
Poetic 'stories', I'd venture, don't have 'known' endings, which may
make them problematic for the critic, but adds immeasurably to their
interest.
Clark Allison
Aberdeen
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