Maybe because I get a mention, this item is very interesting.
However, it is a distillation of many, many insights and comments.
Group: Poetry Review and Discuss
Bonnie Jean, if I may be so bold (and
too often am), you have no cause whatever for embarrassment.
Look above at Bonnie Roberts and
James Hercules and James Brown and Jim Spain and Ronald--five of the finest
critical minds on these pages--attempting to define poetry.
And failing magnificently.
While reading
their wonderful posts I have come to some penetrating new insights on the
nature of poetry and prose. What I have NOT learned is--what IS poetry?
I mean, a normative
"definition". a delineation that will encompass all poetry. Uh-uh.
Not going to happen. And IMO, probably we'll encounter similar roadblocks
defining prose.
And in various posts and at various
junctures in their discussion, the five thinkers noted above acknowledge
the great difficulty of defining art forms--and question the value of the
enterprise--if it inhibits the creativity of artists.
Bonnie Jean's question opens up yet
anothe avenue of enquiry:how to distinguish (or should we bother) between
"prose" and "story" or "fiction"?
A lot of stories, traditional and
contemporary, present in Poetry--but many more in what most of us would call
"prose". Where's the dividing line?
Help, Fab Five!
Posted by Clark Cook
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