BS: What If ?

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Apr 16 - 09:57 AM

Ed T. I have a notion that great poets may be best described by neuro science and brain anatomy than by concepts of Romanticism.

In this age of computers even severe dyslexics like myself, whose angular gyrus brain structures harbor visual concepts rather than words and language can participate in subjects like poetry and literature, if only by translation.

Poetry came easy to me but few other forms of writing when I was young.

I revel in the mastery of language by many who grace these pages but only as fan and not a payer.

While my original name was Donuel Webster, an orator I will never be, unless I first write my thoughts and read them. But poetry allows my wiring to access pictures and association in a relative unique manner that I too don't completely understand.

I once wrote a perfect sonnet called father and son without realizing it was a sonnet form in proper lines and syllables. This phenomena is not just a monkey with a typewriter but gives evidence to an unconscious editor that seems to function while in a state of hypnotic consciousness. At least for me despite my language deficits and what some may inappropriately call a learning disability.

This possibly is what some 19th century poets experienced but I don't have any evidence. That readers are not erudite as a whole is something I wholeheartedly agree.

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Apr 16 - 10:11 AM

Of course to be scientifically fair, there is still the possibility that dyslexia is just an excuse for being dumb as a post and th I need to go slower than everyone else who processes oral language instantly.


btw Is ending a sentence with a preposition really n anathema to th grammer police?

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: frogprince
Date: 27 Apr 16 - 10:38 AM

Some few years back, I wish I had a reference, I heard it claimed that objection to ending with a preposition derived from doing so being problematic in Latin, but that there is no valid reason to object to it in English usage. Whether that really means anything, I am knowing not.

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: frogprince
Date: 27 Apr 16 - 10:40 AM

Correct that last to "knowing not am I."

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Apr 16 - 10:57 AM

Thnks Frog Princ,
My computer seems to running low on a's and e's.

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 27 Apr 16 - 11:58 AM

It's something with which I won't put up.

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: Ed T
Date: 27 Apr 16 - 12:44 PM

Donuel, interesting.
I suspect diversity is bountiful in humans, as with most species These differences are often not observed, and nor always seen for the potential advantages that many may present, to oe indivdual or otherwise. However, with broader communications, this may be changing, at least in some societies to a limited degree.