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To: Borges

Forgive the misnomer.
I DO however prefer poetry that is rhymed, with metric feet.
Unrhymed, nonsensical poetry (or whatever I said before) smacks of laziness or lack of skill to me. I was thinking more of the Maya Angelou category actually... I mean, rap rhymes but I would not call it great poetry...

But to each his own.


20 posted on 05/19/2005 1:55:13 PM PDT by Conservatrix ("He who stands for nothing will fall for anything.")
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To: Conservatrix

Eliot used rhyme to knock the reader on the head to make a point. But something like 'The Wasteland' works just fine in its own unrhymed baggy way. Alexander Pope it isn't.


21 posted on 05/19/2005 1:57:57 PM PDT by Borges
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