[New-Poetry] cummings, grammaticality

[Halvard Johnson]

Hmm, I just googled "bra hooks" thinking that, in the Age of the Hook- 
up,
they'd gone the way of anarchronisms like "making love" and "having  
sex,"
and, much to my surprise, found that their are still such things  
around to
challenge whatever gawky teenage boys may still exist. What a surprise!

Hal

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G(e)nome
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On Dec 31, 2006, at 12:25 PM, Suzanne Burns wrote:

>
>
> On 12/31/06, Rsgwynn1 at cs.com <Rsgwynn1 at cs.com> wrote:
>
> Maybe it's just lack of experience, not lack of an emotional life.   
> But even young people can gain experience by reading, and they  
> don't read.  You're not going to tap into deeper emotional realms  
> by watching tv, that's for sure.
>
>
> Not by TV alone, that is for sure-- it's innately passive  
> (interestingly, in Stephenson's futuristic worlds, old tv shows and  
> movies are refered to dismissively as "passives", a recognition of  
> how media in many places is becoming so much more participatory).   
> Personally, I wouldn't be too quick to dismiss alternate media--  
> maybe I hang out too much with the folks in MIT's comparative media  
> department, but I see no reason at all why only one medium can tap  
> into "deeper emotional realms".  The potential is there in many  
> things;  the quality depends upon the artist who uses the medium.   
> You may find that your students are very articulate about the  
> emotional depths they experience in music or film-- this might  
> assist you in getting them to see the same things in what they read  
> and take up the challenge.
>
> That said-- yes, inexperience.  I don't know how old your students  
> are, but they just might not have a lot of practice identifying  
> their response beyond the "entertainment mode"-- I liked it, I  
> don't like it, it offended me.  The emotions are there, but they  
> are intellectually like that gawky teenage boy who doesn't know how  
> to undo the bra hooks.  They just need practice.  Some will take to  
> it, others will not.  In the case of the latter, I would just  
> assume that they are engaged by something else.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Suzanne
>
>
>
> -- 
> "Start with your identity, which is a combination of your assets  
> and what your friends mean when they discuss 'the trouble with  
> you,' polish that, and you have style."
>
> --Quentin Crisp
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