[New-Poetry] Excellence in Poetry

[Jeff Newberry]

Yes, because one can quantify the unquantifiable.

Makes perfect sense--measuring the standards of personal taste.

Jeff Newberry

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>wrote:

> Here's my Check-List again, slightly revised:
>
> A Poem Is Excellent Regardless of How Long Halfwits Have Praised or
> Dismissed It If It:
>
> (1) provides a passage into something importantly true or centrally
> beautiful, if not both:
>
> (2) is clear, but not easily clear, nor ever finally fully clear:
>
> (3) has a Unifying Principal, or some meaning or image or the like which
> pulls its elements reasonably close together;
> (4) contains few or no superfluous words or other matter;
>
> (5) boasts some constituent of substance that few or no other poems have
> such as
> uncommon diction, grammar, expressive modality (e.g., mathematics, visual
> art), and imagery;
>
> (6) avoids excessive use of dead language, imagery, sentiment, ideation,
> technique and  form.
>
>
> --Bob G.
>
>
>
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You cannot tell people what to do, you can only tell them parables; and that
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experience, from which each according to his own immediate and peculiar
needs may drawn his own conclusion. --W.H. Auden
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