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Unread 01-26-2010, 09:47 AM
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Sure I am.

Ending with a question is something I just did, in fact. Polysemy, particularly in the shape of zeugma, is something I really like. I'm not persuaded that these are all sins. I suspect we would find the "blank of blank" construction in lots of excellent poems if we went looking. (Dylan Thomas's "golden in the heyday of his eyes" comes to mind).

If "poetic allusion as joke" is an offense, then I'll go to hell right along with the poet who wrote "Fried Beauty."

Unless, as usual, there's something I'm not getting here....

Last edited by Maryann Corbett; 01-26-2010 at 12:43 PM. Reason: to match the construction of Sam's question
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