Saturday, 28 February 2004 - 8:18 PM EST
Name: Byron
Drama isn't required, but it certainly helps.
- Byron
Sunday, 29 February 2004 - 2:33 AM EST
Name: FinbarI don't think drama helps poetry. I think it hinders it. The vast majority of poems that I actually like are very lacking in drama.
Tuesday, 2 March 2004 - 12:35 AM EST
Name: dr.ecan I be on team odes? I'll be the batboy.
Tuesday, 2 March 2004 - 12:35 AM EST
Name: dr.e
What IS drama?
Is it the curl of an actor's hand? The progression of his voice as he flows from cadence to cadence, skips from one trochee to the next?
Will it be there even when he is not acting? If being an actor means being dramatic,
then
can't it be said that being dramatic at all times, he never acts, and so in being an actor cannot be an actor?
Is the thing undone by uneven tempo? Does drama make poetry, vice-versa, or none? Will a poem not be there if it cannot mouth itself on a podium, or is it the actor who cannot be without lines?
When is a question not a question
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When is an answer ditto?
Drama/poet:fear/handful of dust | and in
TRUTH OR FALSEHOOD:
is there no beauty?
