[New-Poetry] ursprache is 3

[Anny Ballardini]

A poem by itself.

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:55 AM, <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:

> Last week my blog had its third anniversary...
> http://ursprache.blogspot.com/
>
> A recent quote post...
>
> Together with alliteration and formulaic phrasing, Old English poetry used
> patterns of repetition, echo, and interlacement to create powerfully
> resonant blocks of verse. There is an aesthetic quality to this poetry, a
> quality of intricate word weaving that moves the reader, or the listener,
> through the narrative or descriptive moment. In fact, one of the expressions
> used for making poetry in Old English was *wordum wrixlan*—to weave
> together words. There was a fabric of language for the Anglo-Saxons, a
> patterning of sounds and sense that matched the intricate patterning of
> their visual arts: serpentine designs and complex interlocking geometric
> forms in manuscript illumination or in metalwork are the visual equivalent
> of the interlocking patterns of the verse.
>
> —Seth Lerer, "Caedmon Learns to Sing," *Inventing English: A Portable
> History of the Language* (Columbia University Press, 2007)
>
> My m.o. is that you have read a handful of my aphoristic musings ars
> poetica to get to a posted quote.
> Finnegan
>
>
>
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I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing
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