Poetry is easiest to recognize if the lines are in meter. If I’m talking and I suddenly say, “It was many and many a year ago / In a kingdom by the sea, / That a maiden there lived whom you may know / By the name of Annabel Lee...,” you can recognize the exact point at which I’m going from ordinary speech into a ritual language.
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
Q&A …
… TO BEAR THE WEIGHT OF LIFEm— An Interview with Dana Gioia. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
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