Re: Poetique

En réponse à Costentin Cornomorus :


>Just skimming through the examples I snipped
>(Germanic alliterative, Greek, Latin, Sanskrit,
>Arabic) -- I'm sure each culture has numerous
>possible poetic forms, and some more than others.
>Is there anything that unifies them all beyond "a
>means of communication"?
"A means of communication with some rules of form that are different from 
everyday usage of the language (usually stricter, and often - but not 
necessarily always, based on rhythmic features of the language), in order 
to convery meaning (whatever kind of meaning, if only an aesthetical 
meaning) not only through the meaning of the message but through its form".

Basically, while prose is interested only in conveying a message through 
the meaning of the words it uses, poetry also tries to convey something 
through another medium than just what the message means. And of course, to 
achieve that there are plenty of ways to achieve it, which can have to do 
with rhythmic rules, but also other rules of form. And of course, like 
everything is never all-white or all-black, the frontier between prose and 
poetry is not a strict one :)) .

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.