Chris,
Think the point of a discussion group is to discuss issues that are
pertinent to the participants. Why discuss anything? Why acknowledge
differences or indifferences? Why not seek our fortune in silence? Keep to
ourselves our private thoughts and shine no light?
That prose in our century routinely often passes for poetry does not
necessarily by itself alarm. However, the failure to identify the end result
of a creative process which leads to specific properties of a literary form
may lead to corruption elsewhere.
A sort of misperception takes shape. A lack of alertness. A numbness in the
pen. What was once poetry gives way to disintegrating forms. Are we to
quietly assume that prose has suddenly acquired properties which it did not
possess?
What solution or enlightenment will the outcome of such an argument bear?
Ernest Slyman
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