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I agree with Charles. Wouldn't put it as right and left-handed. It is not
the case that uninspired poetry equates to verse, however good. I think (I
think) that verse comes from a more conscious level, probably uses wit
rather than waits for the ineffable to become effable in some less planned
way. It is also possible when writing 'verse' to get a marvellous 'given'
something or other, but it will probably be more at the verbal level. Poetry
will be at the level of the 'given' most of the time - a fusing of the
feeling and the diction. Poetry can't be 'in the service of . . .',
generally speaking. Pale Fire is not poetry. I'm ready to admit that this
may be marginally a matter of genre; but genre itself inflects the
depth-to-surface charge, which has to start from deep and work up to a
marvellous surface. Penny.
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the case that uninspired poetry equates to verse, however good. I think (I
think) that verse comes from a more conscious level, probably uses wit
rather than waits for the ineffable to become effable in some less planned
way. It is also possible when writing 'verse' to get a marvellous 'given'
something or other, but it will probably be more at the verbal level. Poetry
will be at the level of the 'given' most of the time - a fusing of the
feeling and the diction. Poetry can't be 'in the service of . . .',
generally speaking. Pale Fire is not poetry. I'm ready to admit that this
may be marginally a matter of genre; but genre itself inflects the
depth-to-surface charge, which has to start from deep and work up to a
marvellous surface. Penny.
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