[New-Poetry] Stress -- WAS: I hate everyone with an MFA

Halvard Johnson halvard at earthlink.net
Thu Sep 28 15:58:52 EDT 2006


And nothing creates stress like reading articles in health newsletters.

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On Sep 28, 2006, at 3:49 PM, Helen Ruggieri wrote:

> I read an article in my health newsletter that stated stress wasn't  
> good for you.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Snider" <mandolin at mac.com>
> To: <New-Poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 4:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Stress -- WAS: I hate everyone with an MFA
>
>
>>
>> On Wednesday, September 27, 2006, at 03:22PM, Robin Hamilton  
>> <robin.hamilton2 at btinternet.com> wrote:
>>
>>> From: "Mike Snider" <mandolin at mac.com>
>>>
>>>> And however many phonological stress-levels there are in  
>>>> English, there's
>>>> only stressed and unstressed in English A/C poetry (except  
>>>> dipodics), and
>>>> they dance with phonological stress.
>>>
>>> Neatly put!  I'm glad I'm not the only person who insists on  
>>> considering
>>> dipodics.
>>>
>>> But the "only stressed/unstressed" point would apply to the various
>>> varieties of stress metres as well as syllable accent metres, nah?
>>>
>>> Humpty Dumpty
>>>
>>
>> You're right, of course. I get a little blinkered sometimes.
>>
>>
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