Re: Conlang Poetry, was Re: language change
| From: | Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 6, 2000, 5:42 |
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On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Brad Coon wrote:
> It might be well to remember that rhyme and meter are far from
> universals of poetry. I have seen some arguments to the contrary
> and don't follow either side very closely, but the last I heard it
> was generally agreed that rhyme was not a feature of any New World
> poetry. For that matter, one could argue that poetry itself
> is not a universal concept. Not sure I want to go there but
> I have heard some very well-reasoned arguments that Art is not
> universal either, principally dividing into what is art and what
> is decoration.
> As for Haiku, impossible in Nova!
> Just my 2 cents,
Rhymne and meter are certainly *not* absolutes of poetic utterance!
Meter's close, but not quite.
As far as poetry being absolute -- it appears that poetry is a universal.
Even languages without writing have concepts of poetry, although they may
not construct those concepts exactly the same way we do. I would venture
that poetry is universal -- by which I mean every culture differentiates
between every day utterance and formal, usually aesthetic, utterance.
Prove me wrong if you can -- I'd be interested in any evidence to the
contrary.