To: Vision
In this case the point is an aesthetic judgment that has legitimacy. The Star Spangled Banner is a very bad piece of prosody. There are better songs to be the National Anthem and most have been mentioned in thi thread.
36 posted on
04/12/2006 11:34:40 AM PDT by
Borges
To: Borges
Francis Scott Key wrote it as a poem, not a song. It was only later set to music. When the character in Angels in America made the comment about how it the song was written poorly (paraphrase), he was displaying his ignorance of this fact. No surprise there.
To: Borges
The Star Spangled Banner is a very bad piece of prosody
I guess we'll agree to disagree
73 posted on
04/12/2006 11:48:59 AM PDT by
Vision
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