the voice of not going back

twelveoone

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This is the voice of someone discovering the why, the experience of looking from the inside
Originally Posted by todski28
it's like you are reliving the same day, over and over again in this piece. so many questions left unanswered, it really is interesting.

this is text, if seen previous tells you what to expect, if seen after, confirms what you discovered for yourself
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5786
as in from regarding form
An incantation is created by a pantoum's interlocking pattern of rhyme and repetition; as lines reverberate between stanzas, they fill the poem with echoes. This intense repetition also slows the poem down, halting its advancement. As Mark Strand and Eavan Boland explained in The Making of a Poem, "the reader takes four steps forward, then two back," making the pantoum a "perfect form for the evocation of a past time. - See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/p....p2TaMPCJ.dpuf

this is the voice of someone not going back to just being a reader of poetry but actively engaging poetry

Originally Posted by todski28
it's like ... it really is interesting.

there is that jump, about 8 years ago I discovered the why of the pantoum here

my comment

there is that line, tod, from reading to understanding what works in writing, and that line is always approached alone, and that voice is always sounds the same
"it really is interesting."

and you will say it 10,000 times

all else is bullshit

that said here's a fun one
 
Thanks. Kill bill a pantoum is awesome! He has some of the most amazing poetry I have ever read. Not that I have read any other poetry than what is on this site..... However amongst the crap there is some pretty special writing.
 
Thanks. Kill bill a pantoum is awesome! He has some of the most amazing poetry I have ever read. Not that I have read any other poetry than what is on this site..... However amongst the crap there is some pretty special writing.
re: an earlier comment
Banjo Paterson
and re: Robert Service, Banjo Paterson, John G. Neihardt, & the Cowboy Poets
(they are towards the bottom) and bullshit in general, i.e. avoid it (at least avoid believing it), if something works find out why and illustrate it. There is always healthy room for disagreement, but never accept say-so, because someone said so.
 
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