twelveoone
ground zero
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or something that is off, generally speaking in poetry it is death. However, sometimes good writers sometimes use them as a sort of key change. The problem is sometimes the audience does not follow. A classic example would be Lord Bryon's bad rhymes that he often used for satiric purposes, which is different from Ogden Nash's where it is obvious. A few writers here have the ability to show you two things at once, GM as stated previously had that ability. "I am saying this, but hinting at something else", Shakespeare could do it. This is a form of ambiguity, more correctly may ambivalence. To be or not to be...
I strongly recommend his Boddhisattva for that reason. There is a message, the word choice flows AGAINST the message, it is cumulative and subtle. In other words:
This is good writing, an example of something you rarely see (in part because it is difficult), he is showing you two opposing pictures, one white, one black, you have form the gray yourself.
My reading of this is not quite satiric, although possible, but more a rather strong ambivalence. My cryptic note was about him beginning to see the same thing on one of mine. Whether he was conscious or it (I doubt) or (more likely) he saw a possible tool for use when he left that comment.
This again is the value of comments, if you see something in others work even if it really isn't there, you can use it in your own.
I strongly recommend his Boddhisattva for that reason. There is a message, the word choice flows AGAINST the message, it is cumulative and subtle. In other words:
This is good writing, an example of something you rarely see (in part because it is difficult), he is showing you two opposing pictures, one white, one black, you have form the gray yourself.
My reading of this is not quite satiric, although possible, but more a rather strong ambivalence. My cryptic note was about him beginning to see the same thing on one of mine. Whether he was conscious or it (I doubt) or (more likely) he saw a possible tool for use when he left that comment.
This again is the value of comments, if you see something in others work even if it really isn't there, you can use it in your own.