06-22-2019, 02:49 AM
The ideas and ideas in general of what poetry should be is playing tug-of-war with the poetry you're reading or writing. If they stop playing, they fall to the death. You know what prose is, but you don't know if it's poetic if you have no point of reference for what poetic or heightened language is. To me the word summer is heightened language, anything with the word summer is poetic to me. Heightened language makes many people feel the way I do when I think of summer. I have to make a myth of language that's musical. In sound and in cognitive pleasure, even repulsive pleasure, but that circles around itself.
Do you want to talk about how to produce heightened language, or what heightened language is existentially, or experientially, or is there a difference?
Reading and writing poetry is poetry, if what you're reading and writing is poetry. What is poetry? Poetry is poetic. What is poetic? In language, heightened language is poetic. What is heightened language? Prosodic techniques can produce it, but what is it? Why is it? How is heightened language? Poetic techniques. Why? It isn't. It isn't heightened language to people who aren't interested in poetry. People who aren't interested in poetry might find other kinds of speech heightened. I use heightened speech when I get angry. I use it when I'm exciting myself over a woman, or trying to excite her. The nonpoetic is useful in the poetic, as the unfunny is useful in humor. Everybody here already knows about poetic techniques. Why these techniques should or could be used is, for me, part of poetry. As is why they shouldn't. When I write poetry, I'm going through a magical operation. I'm doing something biological. I'm conducting physics. I have lots of books on prosody that I read after the fact. If at all.
Poetry, for me, is action. Life not death. Success and failure.
Do you want to talk about how to produce heightened language, or what heightened language is existentially, or experientially, or is there a difference?
Reading and writing poetry is poetry, if what you're reading and writing is poetry. What is poetry? Poetry is poetic. What is poetic? In language, heightened language is poetic. What is heightened language? Prosodic techniques can produce it, but what is it? Why is it? How is heightened language? Poetic techniques. Why? It isn't. It isn't heightened language to people who aren't interested in poetry. People who aren't interested in poetry might find other kinds of speech heightened. I use heightened speech when I get angry. I use it when I'm exciting myself over a woman, or trying to excite her. The nonpoetic is useful in the poetic, as the unfunny is useful in humor. Everybody here already knows about poetic techniques. Why these techniques should or could be used is, for me, part of poetry. As is why they shouldn't. When I write poetry, I'm going through a magical operation. I'm doing something biological. I'm conducting physics. I have lots of books on prosody that I read after the fact. If at all.
Poetry, for me, is action. Life not death. Success and failure.