[New-Poetry] a dead ear for scansion

[TheOldMole]

Pinsky's not bad on scansion vs, what you actually hear.

Mary Oliver's Rules for the Dance is a good teachable, readable book on form

Rsgwynn1 at cs.com wrote:
> 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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