The Wild Wind

[abu nuwas]

Milo with agree I, sure for, sense it plenty makes!

elad

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I see your point; you make it sound rather silly; but language can get boring, in it's usual sense, I've read poetry like that; it's just like someone would speak it, but i will really think about it; perhaps there is a better way. Thank you again, Loretta

One reason that inversion is now rare, is that it has been hunted nearly to extinction, by the plain-speaking brigade. There is nothing in the least wrong about using it, or archaistic language either, or made-up words, or foreign words. Words and punctuation and structure are what a poet has available in his paint-box. To eschew some, because of nervousness about fashion, or for fear of being called 'amateur' makes no sense, most especially, since there is nothing in poetry, more often than not, which resembles the day-to-day lingo we all use -- so why pick on this? How many people =, myself apart, use strings of alliterated words in daily speech? They don't. How many rhyme, when they go to the supermarket? Do they use dozens of dactyls at the deli, or reserve trochees for the tax-man, or pillory their postman with pompous pentameters? No, nor are amphibrachs and anapaests aimed only at artists animals and actors. But maybe this should be a thread -again.....