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Kartik Raj Kanna Posted 14 years ago

Poetic Freedom

Isn't poetic freedom a setback in the efforts to upkeep proper grammar usage and stop the disintegration of the language's grammar principles?

Many poems and pieces of literature have really bad grammar and many people use the freedom given to invent new styles that infect the grammar of students' writings.

*THIS IS NOT TO BE TAKEN OFFENSIVELY, ALL I WANTED WAS TO EXCHANGE MY VIEWS ON THE TOPIC. IF IT DISPLAYED A SENSE OF OFFENSE, I SINCERELY SHOW MY REGRETS.*

Thanks,
KRK
  

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KRK; You cannot stop poets any more than you can stop musicians or artists. Many people dislike contemporary art as it can appear very controversial. The impressionist artists were deplored, insulted and denigrated in their own time.

— AlpheccaStars

  • KRK; You cannot stop poets any more than you can stop musicians or artists.
  • Many people dislike contemporary art as it can appear very controversial.
  • The impressionist artists were deplored, insulted and denigrated in their own time.
  • Van Gogh never sold any of his art, yet, try to buy an original Van Gogh today.
  • Good poetry, whether it conforms to strict grammar or not, will survive.
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KRK;

You cannot stop poets any more than you can stop musicians or artists.
Many people dislike contemporary art as it can appear very controversial. The impressionist artists were deplored, insulted and denigrated in their own time. Van Gogh never sold any of his art, yet, try to buy an original Van Gogh today.

Good poetry, whether it conforms to strict grammar or not, will
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It would be wrong to freeze the language in place even if you could, and even of you could first define it as it stands. We have entered a period of rigidity with the dictionaries dictating spelling and locking out new words by omission. Andrew Jackson is supposed to have said that it is a poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word, and Shakespeare made up hundreds and hundreds of wo
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enoon and even of you could first
even if
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Hi,

Poets who post on this Forum never seem to me like a danger to English.

But people who post in test-speak make me want to weep for the future of English. lol
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Kartik Raj KannaMany poems and pieces of literature have really bad grammar
Feeling particularly bold today, I'm going to challenge that.
I know, English is not my first language, and I'm not even a historician of the language. So that seems a little pretentious of me; but hear me out.
If the statement was about Italian litterature vs. Italian grammar
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Henry74If the statement was about Italian litterature vs. Italian grammar, I would dare you to find a poem or a piece of recognized litterature that had bad grammar in it. You would have to go back to Latin, but you would of course be changing language.It seems to me that the same argument could apply to English.
well, you might be interested in e.e. cummings.
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Hhmm. Okay. I see. So maybe English poetry is different in this respect.
Actually, perhaps I should discard poetry in general, if I wanted to try and salvage my argument
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