[New-Poetry] Aphorisms

[JforJames at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/16/2008 10:17:51 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
jeff.newberry at gmail.com writes:

I don't even know if I'm  using the right terminology here, but I thought I'd 
throw out some thoughts  I've been having on aphorisms and poetic form.   



Jeff, aphorism may be one of the most  difficut 'literary forms'  pin down or 
 define. There is so much overlap in the genre. Think of just  the terms have 
to express brief writings. (Not to mention  that many aphorisms are in fact 
excerpted from longer texts and are deemed  aphorisms only because to way they 
use words, with a certain pith  or punch or philosophic viewpoint.) 
 
Aphorisms 
Epigrams 
Maxims 
Dicta 
Slogans 
Sententia 
Pensées 
Axioms 
Aperçus 
Apothegms 
Adages 
Proverbs 
­Sayings 
Saws 
Squibs 
Snippets 
Fragments 
Table-talk 
-and then the formal discipline  of 
Day book 
Anas 
Journaling 
-- 
In follow-upr post Ill  suggest a few books that worth looking into (for 
poets interested in the  topic). 
Finnegan
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