Hi, Janice:
As you know, I usually leave rules, laws and guidelines to
Dennis Hammes,
Earl Gray or
Peter John Ross but I was struck by this:
Quote:
Annie Finch wrote:
Every poem IS its form.
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Annie was wise to stress the present tense here. It cautiously avoids the most obvious objection: there was poetry for milenia before form or meter and before attention was paid to "sounds, rhythms, pitch and intensity." Even so, the ghost of an elephant in the room remains, that being the question: "
Why did we develop these things?"
-o-