Marcia:
Those metaphors are very interesting, I assume neither Brooks nor Davie
gave Pound credit.
I have already given the citation for the fluid versus solid form that
Brooks reuses; In his "Treatise on Metre" a seperate section of "A B C of
Reading" Pound says, "Rhythm is a form cut into TIME, as a design is
determined space." He later in the same piece repeats the first
phrase.(capitalization is Pound's, I think he fully intended to shout and
just was a little ahead of his time. He did alot of shouting)
By the way Pound in 1912 says that one of his goals is a "Language beyond
metaphor".
Rick Seddon
McIntosh, NM, USA
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From: Marcia Karp <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Thursday, March 29, 2001 2:18 PM
Subject: Re: Form in TWL
>Richard Seddon wrote:
>
>> You and Nancy are right; language has sequence and therefore is
temploral.
>
>There are two metaphors you might be interested in.
>
> The poem as a well-wrought urn. (Cleanth Brooks from Donne's "The
> Canonization")
> The poem as a shape cut in time. (Donald Davie “Syntax and Music in
> ‘Paradise Lost’,” in _The Living Milton_, Frank Kermode, editor.)
>
>Marcia
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