04-08-2014, 01:35 AM
If that's the case, then why did you write this:
"She said "if an angel appears I shall kiss it and beg to tell what has been"
for example instead of this?
She said "if an angel appears I shall kiss it and beg to confess my sins."
As there is no consistent line length, or rhyme pattern, I see no need to incorporate such tortured syntax or word choice, nor write something so obscurely when it is just as easy to write clearly. The poets job is not to make that which is clear obscure, but to make that which is obscure, clear.
Dale
"She said "if an angel appears I shall kiss it and beg to tell what has been"
for example instead of this?
She said "if an angel appears I shall kiss it and beg to confess my sins."
As there is no consistent line length, or rhyme pattern, I see no need to incorporate such tortured syntax or word choice, nor write something so obscurely when it is just as easy to write clearly. The poets job is not to make that which is clear obscure, but to make that which is obscure, clear.
Dale
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.