Making Use of the White Space

[btrudo]

I think the literary term you are looking for is "allusion" not "white space" which has a specific definition in poetry that is /not/ being utilized in this poem at all.

Then again, taking into consideration your usual clumsiness, you may mean alliteration, the world may never know.

Milo,

I wasn't the one who started using the term "white space". I am very aware of white space is. I believe the original poster who mentioned it (EileenGreay) was metaphorically using the term to talk about how the poem resides in the our collective sense of literature. She wasn't talking about allusion, which is an indirect reference.

By the way, James Wright is not alluding to Judas at all.

If I write "Not with a bang but a whimper." I am alluding to "The Hollow Men". If I directly mention "The Hollow Men", it is no longer an allusion.

Bill