Poetry and Contemporary Speech (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Poetry and Contemporary Speech There has always been a steady opinion that, however it may be with the other arts, to give precise and complete instruction in the technique of poetry would be decidedly a chimerical undertaking; and the several recorded attempts to make the whole poetic craft teachable, as the craft of writing music or painting pictures is said to be teachable, have rather confirmed this notion than otherwise. No one, in fact, has yet managed to take the spirit of poetry out of its habits and methods (as you take a hermit-crab out of its shell) for the purpose of examining that tissue of habit and method as an empty but, as far as it goes, complete specimen. It seems then, that poetry - not, as some have thought, music - is the art in which creative impulse and expressive technique are merged so as to be indistinguishable. It seems plain, too, where the poet´s impulse and his technique are thus inextricably merged; it is where his characteristic technique begins - in his diction, in his use of words simply as words, not as elements of metre, or as servants of a presiding design: there they begin to go into what we may call his detachable technique. But the choice of words for their own sake is evidently a part of technique: and it is just this part that attempts at poetic instruction have either had noticeably to scamp or to treat as something mysterious and incommunicable, like impulse itself - the peculiar way poets have of employing words, and what it is that they are trying for in their careful verbal compounds. Hence the palpable and inevitable failure of these attempts to teach poetry; for surely it is the special way a poet manages his words that marks him most clearly - which does not mean, however, that this is the most important thing about him. But a person may have beautiful and elevated feelings, he may have sound notions and even sound practice in intellectual form, he may have some command of metre; but if he cannot add to these one kind or another of what we call the magic of words - thereby pleasantly avoiding the necessity of thinking out what we really - mean if he has not the power of making words live with a special and unusual kind of life in his verses, it is justifiable to question his right to the title of poet. But if he has this power at all noticeably, he may have scarce aught else and yet be held to have earned the title. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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