[mairdie]

I sincerely hope not. The neat thing about phonemes is that they're completely unconscious. A poet doesn't TRY to make one tongue movement follow another. They just write what feels right to them. It's the researchers - like the ones here - who look at the obvious and try to deduce what underlies it.

That same girlfriend was also the one that got me into shooting. I was terrified of guns, though my father was a rifle instructor, and she handed me one at the range and explained that the gun was then dangerous but would become safe as soon as I pulled the trigger. (In the right direction, of course). Mind blowing description. She and her husband let me practice my video making before I started doing it for real at IBM by making videos of gun stances and trigger finger exercises. And got Mas to let me videotape the end of the week reward for the people who taught the police to shoot.

Peter, Paul and Mary's The Marvelous Toy for Machine Guns

[Jamestown1630]

"A poet doesn't TRY to make one tongue movement follow another. They just write what feels right to them."

I think a poet chooses WORDS by how they 'feel' - which is a combination of knowledge of the word's meaning, its historical usage, and an intuitive 'je ne sais quois'.

But he puts the words together - arranges them - in ways that sound right to the inner ear. The poet is always 'listening' as he composes.