Frank Antonson
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- Dec 7, 2009
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- English Teacher
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You certainly sound like you know what you are talking about, and I am very happy to accept that.
In the more modern examples, though, how many of them are narrative?
I think I should have limited my subject earlier to "narrative verse". That is my greater concern because it is so appropriate to what I am undertaking with my students.
I have written some 6 or 8 Shakespearian-style sonnets in my life, and I think that the strict form has been productive (at least for me), but that experience is so different from actually telling a story in verse. The latter, it seems to me, uses the beat to sustain the spell and the magic of the story. It is hard to imagine a shaman without a drum.
In the more modern examples, though, how many of them are narrative?
I think I should have limited my subject earlier to "narrative verse". That is my greater concern because it is so appropriate to what I am undertaking with my students.
I have written some 6 or 8 Shakespearian-style sonnets in my life, and I think that the strict form has been productive (at least for me), but that experience is so different from actually telling a story in verse. The latter, it seems to me, uses the beat to sustain the spell and the magic of the story. It is hard to imagine a shaman without a drum.