Commercial Poetry

       So far, we've established that: I) Poetry is verbatim. II) Poetry is most often rhythmic. III) Poetry was subsumed by song in the...

        So far, we've established that: I) Poetry is verbatim. II) Poetry is most often rhythmic. III) Poetry was subsumed by song in th...

      At this point we know that poetry is memorably speech, how to scan verse, rhyme, and use sounds to stitch words together.  So what do ...

     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...