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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
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Poetry and speaking

Whati is the difference between poetry and speaking? I think that poetry stands for being able to convey the best ideas to an audience or to a single person where as speaking plainly is often spontaneous and unrefined-i think that speaking cannot fulfill all of the dimensions of understanding in language that poetry can-inside the infinitly generative combinations of words.

Am I right?
  

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When I read your first line, as displayed in the forum list, I wanted to say that Shakespeare might agree with you. But when I read your post in its entirety, I changed my mind. I do agree that the crafting of a poem is never careless, although some have famously created under the influence of mind-altering substances.

— Avangi

  • When I read your first line, as displayed in the forum list, I wanted to say that Shakespeare might agree with you.
  • But when I read your post in its entirety, I changed my mind.
  • I do agree that the crafting of a poem is never careless, although some have famously created under the influence of mind-altering substances.
  • I've heard it said that King Lear is the greatest love poem ever written, and there's surely an abundance of "spontaneous and unrefined" language.
  • To me, the difference lies in the art of the poem, which may be experienced on many levels.
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When I read your first line, as displayed in the forum list, I wanted to say that Shakespeare might agree with you. But when I read your post in its entirety, I changed my mind.

I do agree that the crafting of a poem is never careless, although some have famously created under the influence of mind-altering substances.

I've heard it said that King Lear is the gre
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