[New-Poetry] a dead ear for scansion

[Rsgwynn1 at cs.com]

In a message dated 7/22/2008 8:44:22 PM Central Daylight Time, 
AlMaginnes at aol.com writes: 
> 
> Paul Fussell's book, whose title escapes me just now.
> 
> 
I like Poetic Meter and Poetic Form because it admits up front that graphic 
scansion is, at best, a pretty poor way of illustrating what we ought to hear 
in a line, not see.  That's why I don't spend much time on scansion in the 
advanced poetry course I'm teaching right now.  I use two levels of stress-- u and 
/ --and tell students about other systems that use three or four but don't 
expect them to use them.  For me it just gets too subjective if you have four 
levels.

Stephen Fry's The Ode Less Travelled is a book that students like--an very 
intelligent amateur speaking to other amateurs.   
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