fallen verses

Disagree with me on what the refrains of the villanelle do cognitively with the most formal definition of the villanelle if you want. There’s room for interpretation that.

Disagree with me on whether content or form is most important in poetry.

Disagree with me on the role of poetry in the world, if you want to!

Do not, ever, fucking disagree with me on the definition of a goddamn word when I am right!!!! Don’t be some “expert” when your first freaking use of the word in question is WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Meter, in poetry, is not synonomous with form. Not. Synonomous.

Meter = binary opposition of the phonological features of language in a regular pattern. Courtesy the New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics.

Syllables have no opposition!!!!!And are not, for that matter, phonological features of a language!!!!!!!!

Syllables != Meter

Love the exclamation mark!!!!!!!!!!!

*It’s like road rage, but sipping a latte and wearing a beret.

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