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Quotes About Prosodic

Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.
~ W.H. Auden
What do poems have to do with an ethics of conviviality? Poems are beginners. The urgent social abjection of the poem might act as shelter to a gestured vernacular. Covertly the poem transforms that vernacular to a prosodic gift whose agency flourishes in the bodily time of an institutional and economic evasion. Let us suppose here that poems are those commodious anywheres that might evade determination by continuously inviting their own dissolution in semantic distribution. In
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Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.
~ W. H. Auden