11-20-2012, 08:38 AM
''Meter is present in every sentence spoken aloud -- and poetry at its best should be heard as well as seen on a page.''
Leanne made this interesting assertion, in the thread about the no-hopers who don't comment, or do not comment in a manner acceptable to others. (I, personally never post poems, but comment occasionally, and have therefore stored up much treasure.) But --- what about this meter business? Is she right, or, uncharacteristically, talking nonsense? Is not the nature of meter, as some might hold, that it must have a repetitive element to it? Does ordinary speech have that? What would Moliere's 'Bourgeois Gentilhomme have thought? He who boasted after his lesson ''Je parle de la prose!'' (I put that in to frighten off the very people others have done so much to make feel at home...Boo!)
Leanne made this interesting assertion, in the thread about the no-hopers who don't comment, or do not comment in a manner acceptable to others. (I, personally never post poems, but comment occasionally, and have therefore stored up much treasure.) But --- what about this meter business? Is she right, or, uncharacteristically, talking nonsense? Is not the nature of meter, as some might hold, that it must have a repetitive element to it? Does ordinary speech have that? What would Moliere's 'Bourgeois Gentilhomme have thought? He who boasted after his lesson ''Je parle de la prose!'' (I put that in to frighten off the very people others have done so much to make feel at home...Boo!)