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Re: MR's last word on PF (quality of)
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In a message dated 04/12/2006 17:58:32 GMT Standard Time,
NABOKV-L@HOLYCROSS.EDU writes:
Part of the problem we've had in discussing whether or not to
call "PF" a poem is revealed by the critical sentence in Frost's
"The Figure a Poem Makes":
Part of the problem in this discussion is that there is no single good word
to describe a composition which is verse rather than poetry. All such
compositions, which either rhyme or scan or are cut up into discrete lines, have to
be called "poems". Pope's Dunciad has to be called a "poem", even though, to
my contrariwise English-educated mind, and those minds of a similar
persuasion, it is verse, not poetry.
Impenetrability. Call for Humpty-Dumpty.
Charles
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