WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.960 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.960 --> 00:00:06.060 align:middle line:84% Thanks for not dropping your peroration because I agree. 00:00:06.060 --> 00:00:08.220 align:middle line:84% In my view the strength of a poem 00:00:08.220 --> 00:00:12.296 align:middle line:84% depends on the fusion of sound, sense, and imagery. 00:00:12.296 --> 00:00:12.796 align:middle line:90% Sure. 00:00:12.796 --> 00:00:15.240 align:middle line:84% I mean, the emphasis you know what I'm saying? 00:00:15.240 --> 00:00:16.420 align:middle line:90% Is a fusion. 00:00:16.420 --> 00:00:16.920 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:00:16.920 --> 00:00:19.620 align:middle line:84% And different sensibilities respond differently 00:00:19.620 --> 00:00:23.440 align:middle line:90% to different fusion. 00:00:23.440 --> 00:00:27.420 align:middle line:84% And you can have a variety of forms 00:00:27.420 --> 00:00:30.810 align:middle line:84% in which you don't get the kind of fusion which 00:00:30.810 --> 00:00:32.460 align:middle line:90% moves you to respond. 00:00:32.460 --> 00:00:33.300 align:middle line:90% Yes. 00:00:33.300 --> 00:00:34.630 align:middle line:90% Well, I think that that's true. 00:00:34.630 --> 00:00:35.530 align:middle line:90% I agree with that. 00:00:35.530 --> 00:00:36.730 align:middle line:90% I agree with that. 00:00:36.730 --> 00:00:39.390 align:middle line:84% I think that one of the things we're so aware though 00:00:39.390 --> 00:00:42.600 align:middle line:84% of how in making a memorable poem, 00:00:42.600 --> 00:00:45.525 align:middle line:84% all those things have to come together. 00:00:45.525 --> 00:00:47.400 align:middle line:84% Then it's really quite overwhelming, I think, 00:00:47.400 --> 00:00:49.960 align:middle line:84% when you're trying to learn your craft. 00:00:49.960 --> 00:00:53.010 align:middle line:84% And I think that it's extremely useful if you approach it 00:00:53.010 --> 00:00:54.240 align:middle line:90% in a really sort of-- 00:00:54.240 --> 00:00:57.130 align:middle line:90% a kind of almost scientific way. 00:00:57.130 --> 00:00:58.207 align:middle line:90% It's like the surgeons. 00:00:58.207 --> 00:00:59.790 align:middle line:84% They drape all-- if they go to operate 00:00:59.790 --> 00:01:02.520 align:middle line:84% on your knee they drape all the rest so they're not 00:01:02.520 --> 00:01:03.393 align:middle line:90% distracted by them. 00:01:03.393 --> 00:01:05.310 align:middle line:84% They just see the knee and you hope they drape 00:01:05.310 --> 00:01:06.510 align:middle line:90% the right one [INAUDIBLE]. 00:01:06.510 --> 00:01:08.790 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:01:08.790 --> 00:01:09.630 align:middle line:90% Something like that. 00:01:09.630 --> 00:01:13.710 align:middle line:84% You can take these different elements and look at a poem 00:01:13.710 --> 00:01:15.810 align:middle line:90% only through that lens. 00:01:15.810 --> 00:01:17.360 align:middle line:84% Just take any of your favorite poem, 00:01:17.360 --> 00:01:19.530 align:middle line:84% and it doesn't matter, and look at it only just 00:01:19.530 --> 00:01:20.400 align:middle line:90% in terms of syntax. 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:23.745 align:middle line:84% Don't look at anything else just look at a great poem 00:01:23.745 --> 00:01:27.060 align:middle line:84% that you love and look and see what the syntax is. 00:01:27.060 --> 00:01:28.800 align:middle line:90% And see if it's varied. 00:01:28.800 --> 00:01:30.390 align:middle line:90% I'll bet you it is. 00:01:30.390 --> 00:01:33.150 align:middle line:84% If it's not, see if it's purposefully not varied. 00:01:33.150 --> 00:01:35.790 align:middle line:84% Or whatever it is, just look at it in terms of syntax. 00:01:35.790 --> 00:01:39.330 align:middle line:84% Or take the same poem, put the lens of lineation on it. 00:01:39.330 --> 00:01:40.170 align:middle line:90% Just look at that. 00:01:40.170 --> 00:01:42.330 align:middle line:90% Say why are the lines like this. 00:01:42.330 --> 00:01:44.340 align:middle line:84% Don't look at anything else, or if it's image, 00:01:44.340 --> 00:01:45.900 align:middle line:90% or if it's whatever. 00:01:45.900 --> 00:01:49.257 align:middle line:90% Doesn't destroy the poem at all. 00:01:49.257 --> 00:01:51.340 align:middle line:84% And you can do the same thing with your own poems. 00:01:51.340 --> 00:01:55.230 align:middle line:84% If you have some poem and it's kind of stuck 00:01:55.230 --> 00:01:57.270 align:middle line:84% and you don't know why it's stuck. 00:01:57.270 --> 00:01:58.950 align:middle line:90% Take one of those lenses. 00:01:58.950 --> 00:02:00.870 align:middle line:84% If you haven't thought about that you're 00:02:00.870 --> 00:02:03.014 align:middle line:90% writing in sentences-- 00:02:03.014 --> 00:02:04.830 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:02:04.830 --> 00:02:06.750 align:middle line:84% --take them-- take it out of delineation, 00:02:06.750 --> 00:02:09.180 align:middle line:84% we love the delineation, we adore delineation 00:02:09.180 --> 00:02:11.430 align:middle line:84% because we can force pattern onto it. 00:02:11.430 --> 00:02:12.810 align:middle line:90% We can jazz it up. 00:02:12.810 --> 00:02:15.660 align:middle line:84% But if the sentences are inherently boring then 00:02:15.660 --> 00:02:17.130 align:middle line:84% no matter how you jazz it up you're 00:02:17.130 --> 00:02:19.380 align:middle line:84% not going to get that thing that Beethoven gets. 00:02:19.380 --> 00:02:21.990 align:middle line:84% So take your own poem, take it out of lineation, 00:02:21.990 --> 00:02:25.560 align:middle line:84% look at it just the sentences and see. 00:02:25.560 --> 00:02:29.190 align:middle line:84% Just use that lens then put it back in the lines. 00:02:29.190 --> 00:02:30.600 align:middle line:90% I think that one can do that. 00:02:30.600 --> 00:02:32.700 align:middle line:84% That in trying to get this fusion-- 00:02:32.700 --> 00:02:36.600 align:middle line:84% I mean, we want it to you know come out of the blue 00:02:36.600 --> 00:02:38.670 align:middle line:84% and strike us in the head like lightning. 00:02:38.670 --> 00:02:41.670 align:middle line:84% We want it to be a flash or have it spontaneous. 00:02:41.670 --> 00:02:44.340 align:middle line:90% That doesn't happen very often. 00:02:44.340 --> 00:02:45.780 align:middle line:90% Sometimes it does. 00:02:45.780 --> 00:02:48.090 align:middle line:84% But in the meantime while you're standing out there 00:02:48.090 --> 00:02:50.550 align:middle line:84% in the rainstorm waiting for the lightning to hit you, 00:02:50.550 --> 00:02:53.580 align:middle line:84% this is a thing that you can do on current poems that 00:02:53.580 --> 00:02:57.810 align:middle line:84% are underway and you can sort of tutor your intuition 00:02:57.810 --> 00:02:59.550 align:middle line:84% about each one of those elements you 00:02:59.550 --> 00:03:03.390 align:middle line:90% can look at them separately. 00:03:03.390 --> 00:03:04.830 align:middle line:90% OK? 00:03:04.830 --> 00:03:06.200 align:middle line:90% Time to go home? 00:03:06.200 --> 00:03:06.700 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:03:06.700 --> 00:03:07.300 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:03:07.300 --> 00:03:08.850 align:middle line:90% Thank you.