Comments on: Poetry and Narrative in Performance, part I http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/10/poetry-and-narrative-in-performance-part-i/ A blog from the Poetry Foundation where contemporary poets debate classic and contemporary poetry from America and around the world. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:59:53 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Terreson http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/10/poetry-and-narrative-in-performance-part-i/#comment-26130 Terreson Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:53:35 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=6065#comment-26130 Interesting analysis, what will take me more than a couple of readings to get. Immediately, however, the package put me in mind of Old English, or Anglo-Saxon, prosodic rules, what held the field before the Norman conquest brought with it latinate rules involving syllable quantifications. Trying to figure out why I pull down my trusty Princeton Encylopedia, go to the rather lengthy entry on Old English prosody and who should I find referenced in the context of the same but your 19th C German linguist, Sievers. Looking forward to part 2. Terreson Interesting analysis, what will take me more than a couple of readings to get. Immediately, however, the package put me in mind of Old English, or Anglo-Saxon, prosodic rules, what held the field before the Norman conquest brought with it latinate rules involving syllable quantifications. Trying to figure out why I pull down my trusty Princeton Encylopedia, go to the rather lengthy entry on Old English prosody and who should I find referenced in the context of the same but your 19th C German linguist, Sievers.

Looking forward to part 2.

Terreson

]]> By: john http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/10/poetry-and-narrative-in-performance-part-i/#comment-26122 john Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:57:53 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=6065#comment-26122 Dear Anselm, Thanks for posting this fascinating series of insights and thoughts. The distinction between performance and description sparks lights of recognition; and the discussion of voiced vowels and consonants, with the quote from Wyatt, is terrific. Sometimes I think about a poetry consisting entirely of voiced consonants, vvvvvmmmmmnnnnzzzzz or an alternation of voiced consonants with their unvoiced twins, vvvvvvvvfffvvvvvvvvfffvvvvvvvv zzzsssszzzzzsssszzzzz . . . but I hadn't thought about the role of voiced consonants in lyricism. p.s. The hint of a personal address in your step-father's letter is entirely conventional and lends itself to public discourse; you're right to think that the letter is available to any interested reader, without hint of gossip. Thanks again. Dear Anselm,

Thanks for posting this fascinating series of insights and thoughts. The distinction between performance and description sparks lights of recognition; and the discussion of voiced vowels and consonants, with the quote from Wyatt, is terrific.

Sometimes I think about a poetry consisting entirely of voiced consonants,

vvvvvmmmmmnnnnzzzzz

or an alternation of voiced consonants with their unvoiced twins,

vvvvvvvvfffvvvvvvvvfffvvvvvvvv
zzzsssszzzzzsssszzzzz

. . . but I hadn’t thought about the role of voiced consonants in lyricism.

p.s. The hint of a personal address in your step-father’s letter is entirely conventional and lends itself to public discourse; you’re right to think that the letter is available to any interested reader, without hint of gossip. Thanks again.

]]> By: Joseph Donahue http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/10/poetry-and-narrative-in-performance-part-i/#comment-26116 Joseph Donahue Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:55:21 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=6065#comment-26116 Thank you for posting this. Looking forward to the rest. Thank you for posting this. Looking forward to the rest.

]]>