Re: OT: Poets against the war
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, February 2, 2003, 3:06 |
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Mangiat scripsit:
> They're not good poetry, I know... And I am particularly critical towards
> poetry with no rhymes, assonances and the like ;-) But I do share what they
> think.
Almost a hundred years ago, formal poetry came to seem artificial, forced,
or childish to those writing in English, and it became necessary to find
a new way. I don't know that the new way has been quite discovered yet,
but a lot of good poetry has been made in the search.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all. There
are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language
that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful.
--_The Hobbit_
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