Wednesday, July 3, 2024

The Outerview Series: Part IV - Scan Poems Backward

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      So far, we've established that poetry is the speech we preserve verbatim and that it is currently found almost exclusively in song...
Sunday, June 30, 2024

The Outerview Series: Part III - What is Rhythm?

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       In our first two outerviews we defined poetry as verbatim speech whose audience is all but limited to song lyrics.  It makes sense to...
Sunday, June 23, 2024

The Outerview Series: Part II - Where is poetry?

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       In our first outerview we established that poetry is a mode of speech, coming about because audiences feel the words are worth prese...
Friday, June 21, 2024

The Outerview Series: Part I - What is poetry?

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      Poetry is speech worth remembering.  (Believe it or not, that was the long definition.)  Because there are only two kinds--two modes-...
Friday, August 13, 2021

Ta-Da!

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       When British troops landed in India the residents, who spoke unstressed tongues, noticed a similarity between the "Left!  Right!...
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Monday, February 8, 2021

The Remains of the Clay

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"The further a society drifts from the truth the more it will hate those who speak it." - George Orwell Definition of rhetoric 1 ...
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Thursday, January 21, 2021

Inaugural Poet Amanda Gorman - "The Hill We Climb"

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        22 year old Los Angeles aspiring poet Amanda Gorman was Joe Biden's choice for inaugural poet.  How did she do?       Well, it ...