03-29-2012, 02:09 AM
[quote='rayheinrich' pid='93177' dateline='1332952950']
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'If it feels like poetry, it is.'
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Hopefully not extended to: "If it feels like the gun's loaded, it is."
(Though this actually works for the 'plastic' ones.)
But on the poem thing, I decided a long time ago to go with the
author's opinion (unless it was unobtainable). Since I'm making up
the rest of it as I read it, I think it's only proper to allow the writer
some sort of determination.
***
Extended to, "If it feels like Charles Lamb wrote it,
he did. If it looks like a lime Slurpee, it is. If it
feels soft and fussy, it's something soft and fuzzy.
If Hester screwed Dimmesdale, she did
(even if just once or twice).
If Ahab stomped about on a peg, Cetology.
If Jason grew up a miser hating women,
and Benjy grew up an idiot, and Caddy
turned to promiscuity, it sounds furious.
I am curious, tho, why did Henry Sutpen
shoot Charles Bon? when they were close
as brothers and thick as thieves.
Whitman wrote about grass. Who wrote
about leaves? Joyce Kilmer, in a poem
good for sospranos and not much else.
Enough extension...
rh
.
'If it feels like poetry, it is.'
[font=Courier New][size=1]
Hopefully not extended to: "If it feels like the gun's loaded, it is."
(Though this actually works for the 'plastic' ones.)
But on the poem thing, I decided a long time ago to go with the
author's opinion (unless it was unobtainable). Since I'm making up
the rest of it as I read it, I think it's only proper to allow the writer
some sort of determination.
***
Extended to, "If it feels like Charles Lamb wrote it,
he did. If it looks like a lime Slurpee, it is. If it
feels soft and fussy, it's something soft and fuzzy.
If Hester screwed Dimmesdale, she did
(even if just once or twice).
If Ahab stomped about on a peg, Cetology.
If Jason grew up a miser hating women,
and Benjy grew up an idiot, and Caddy
turned to promiscuity, it sounds furious.
I am curious, tho, why did Henry Sutpen
shoot Charles Bon? when they were close
as brothers and thick as thieves.
Whitman wrote about grass. Who wrote
about leaves? Joyce Kilmer, in a poem
good for sospranos and not much else.
Enough extension...
rh