BB:

As a violators of grammar in poetry yourself I am surprised you should make such an objection; perhaps thou dost protest too much?

As for a better class of poetry, there's always that indeed.

You will find plenty of liberties taken with grammar in excellent poetry, from the (just for example) Kiplingesque pounding of the "Bells, bells, bells, bells, bells!" to the fanciful inversions of ee cummings and the uproar of Alan Ginsberg. Grammar is a framework readily bust on behalf of some transcendent communication. My point, then and now, is that good poetry breaks the mold of entrammeling logic in order to offer some leakage into a freer plane of being.


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