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Re: To MaryAnn
I do not see the entire bible as poetic, certainly. I see Psalms as poetry because it brings forth for me the same emotional and spiritual experience I feel in Wordsworth's Intimations, for example. And yet you say: The poet is at heart a musician. The musician, a poet. Which is precisely why the whole Hebrew Bible is poetic (or rather ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on December 13, 2007
Re: poetry or song lyrics?
MaryAnn: Hi White Rabbit, I was wondering why you classify this psalm or any of the other psalms as poetry. From your introductory paragraphs, I can see how the rules and conventions of the psalms' original Hebrew version are relevant to song lyrics. And as you know, the etymology of the word psalm reinforces the concept of a psalm as a ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on December 13, 2007
More aptly, it aims for the moon and hits the neighbor's dog
Hi MaryAnn, This discussion (here and elsewhere) is rapidly developing into something that requires more time and thought than I am able to give it. And that's too bad, because I'm interested in literally anything and everything that helps me understand better how the world works. But ''here goes nothing...'' My screwball quip in the title is ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 14, 2007