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I skip, I plod.(Literature)(Critical Essay)
WILL I SKIP now? Or will I plod? Which is to say, will I choose to transform the sensory/verbal momentum in my head into a work of poetry or one of prose?
At the instant my fingers alight on the keyboard, or my pen twitches in the notebook, this choice may be very undetermined, as negligent as that which makes me settle to sleep on one side or another, take one foodstuff from the fridge rather than an alternative.
Of course I know how prose and poetry have distinguished themselves from each other in the past. The right words in the right order versus the best words in the best order, Coleridge tells us. Not the wine but the cognac, claims Lex Banning for ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, I skip, I plod.(Literature)(Critical Essay)