From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!uwvax!reid
Newsgroups: net.poems
Title: Re: poetry is incompleteness
Article-I.D.: uwvax.884
Posted: Fri May 20 03:10:43 1983
Received: Sat May 21 04:15:56 1983


I strongly disagree.  It needs to be more than prose, more than a mere
description, but incompleteness is not the definition.  The definition is
pretty tough to come up with, but form and meter and cohesion and structure
and some correlation between language and meaning and frequently phonological
elements like rhyming have a whole heck of a lot to do with what is poetry.

Glenn Reid
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