05-08-2014, 01:45 PM
abu wrote: "It rather seems as though there is a hazy consensus that inversion is always bad, wrong, and with no place in poetry."
Inversion poetic?: any change from a basic word order or syntactic sequence, as in the placement of a subject after an auxiliary verb in a question or after the verb in an exclamation, as “When will you go?” and “How beautiful is the rose!”
Bad? "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" --> better?--> "I will compare you to a summer's day" -->best "You are a summer's day"
However Abu, I can defend meter ("meter", that's how we write it) and rhyme. It's catchy!
Dale the nice
Inversion poetic?: any change from a basic word order or syntactic sequence, as in the placement of a subject after an auxiliary verb in a question or after the verb in an exclamation, as “When will you go?” and “How beautiful is the rose!”
Bad? "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" --> better?--> "I will compare you to a summer's day" -->best "You are a summer's day"
However Abu, I can defend meter ("meter", that's how we write it) and rhyme. It's catchy!
Dale the nice
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.