Book on Prosody

[Brownlie]

"'I, chanter of Adamic songs,
Through the new garden the West,
the great cities calling.' -Whitman
It is, in fact, in the poems gathered under the title Children of Adam
(1860) that we have the most explicit evidence of his ambition to
reach behind tradition to find and assert nature untroubled by art, to
re-establish the natural unfallen man in the living hour. (Lewis).

Don't know if this ads anything to our discussion here.

As far as freedom I think of that old aphorism "Freedom isn't Free." I would like someone to take a stab at defining freedom.

the freedom to write what you want. if you mean real freedom, (think about something freedom is a state of mind.

as for free verse, it's as a good a medium as any for getting a poem written. not the same as blank verse which is what i tend to use if i'm not trying to do a rhymed poem.

i'll read the piece when i get time, at present i'm trying to juggle uping some audio poetry and the real world demands of being the household's taxi driver. thanks milo

Just by knowing the difference between free verse and blank verse you know more than half of the English students at my college. I loved the audio you put up on Robert Frost I think Frost might have been reading them himself great stuff.