Poetry may be written on paper, but it’s an oral art.A good… - John Hollander

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Poetry may be written on paper, but it’s an oral art.A good poem satisfies the ear .It creates a story or picture that grabs you.

John Hollander

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John Hollander (October 28, 1929 – August 17, 2013) was an American poet and literary critic.

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The building blocks of poetry itself are elements if fiction -fable, 'image', metaphor-all the material if the nonliteral.

The study of rhetoric distinguishes between tropes, or figures of meaning such as metaphor and metonymy, and schemes, or surface patterns of words. Poetry is a matter of trope; and verse, of scheme or design.

One crosses the brink of literalness into poetry by desiring , noticing, fixing on something and wondering what to make of it.

Poetry may be written on paper, but it’s an oral art.A good poem satisfies the ear .It creates a story or picture that grabs you. - John Hollander

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