Commercial Poetry

     So far, we've learned that poetry is memorably speech.  It uses a lot of memory aids ("mnemonic techniques"), including c...

     At this point we understand what poetry is:  memorable speech.  We know where it is:  primarily, in song lyrics.  We know that lines fi...

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

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

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

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

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