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On Wednesday, May 4, 2022 at 12:45:16 PM UTC-4, george...@yahoo.ca wrote:
> On 2022-05-04 9:41 a.m., Michael Pendragon wrote:
> > On Tuesday, May 3, 2022 at 6:14:34 PM UTC-4, george...@yahoo.ca wrote:
> >> On 2022-05-02 6:56 p.m., W.Dockery wrote:
> >>> General-Zod wrote:
> >>>> George J. Dance wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
> >>>
> >>>>> Always Marry an April Girl, by Ogden Nash
> >>>>> [...]
> >>>>> April golden, April cloudy,
> >>>>> Gracious, cruel, tender, rowdy;
> >>>>> [...]
> >>>>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/04/always-marry-april-girl-ogden-nash.html
> >>>>>
> >>>
> >>>> Cool, second read
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Nash definitely was the master of his niche in poetry.
> >> Oh, yeah. As an example:I remember one textbook I picked up in the last
> >> half of the last century. It was very modern in its approach to verse.
> >> First, it ignored rhythm / meter completely. Second, it pontificated
> >> that rhyme was good only for humorous effect;
> >
> > What an appallingly horrid little work that must have been.
> >
> > And a textbook, yet (implying that it was actually taught in classrooms).
> >
> > One need look no farther to understand why poetry has become a dead language and an obsolete art form.
> Indeed so. Fortunately it wasn't one I had to study. From the language,
> I'd think it was geared at the high school market, but I encountered it
> only in 2007 (after I'd joined aapc, and was trying to buy all the
> poetics I could find on the cheap). The books we studied in uni weren't
> that bad.
> >
> > And, yes -- I would consign that book to be burned along with Stinky George's and Dirty Mike's rubbers.
> >
> I think it went to a landfill, but it did get trashed.

Bravo!

> Sad in a way, as
> I'd like to bring it down from the shelf and quote some of it.

It would be enjoyable to refute.