[New-Poetry] from the Writer's Almanac

[Judy Prince]

Dear Worthless Guy,
Can you give me [thank you; me is Judy] details about this fascinating
leading statement in Wiki re William Baer?

"He also received brief fame when his obituary was prematurely published by
the New York Times <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times> due to a
hoax by his students.

2009/5/3 TheOldMole <Opus40-01 at opus40.org>

> Speaking as the worthless guy, it makes no difference if the lines don't
> get in the way of your appreciation of the poem, some difference if they do.
>
> I wonder, though -- are there any elements of craft that are worth
> discussing, or is scansion the only worthless one?
>
>
>
>
> Chris Lott wrote:
>
>> On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Judy Prince
>> <jbalizsprince at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi, Chris,
>>> I keep wondering why it's such a well hidden secret that scansion depends
>>> upon the scanner for the scanner's ear and eye and brain's response
>>> to/interpretation of the poet's words?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> It's not a secret. But it means that when person A posts a poem and
>> person B says "it doesn't scan" then person B's response is rather
>> meaningless, no?
>>
>>
>>
>>> Fiercesome battles have ensued about scansion and its supposed
>>> only-one-way-of-reading authority.  Yes, of course I'm OTTing about it
>>> here,
>>> and do welcome hearing others' views.  It's just that so few folk
>>> recognise
>>> scansion's role as a wonderfully useful *variously-applied* medium.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I'm still looking for the wonderfully useful part, I guess. Maybe
>> lines 2 and 6 of Baer's poems scan to one or maybe they don't. What
>> difference does it make?
>>
>> c
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