From Deborah Meadows on sound in poetry

For the blog, I appreciate the effort at reading, or learning a new way to read, but I feel compelled to add that, (like many writers on the blog perhaps,) I've studied prosody, sonic properties of poetry for many years, they matter a great deal, and mellifluence as a form of Beauty is problematic but one we struggle with as writers. It's a way to move away from "information" and "summary" to "experience" and "variation"--important priciples in the long poem. Sound can set up cuoltural "echoes" with other trivial/banal bits of language (such as ad slogans) and with important language (such as poems, lines of Shakespeare, etc.). I'll copy and paste a later poem in the next email, Chap 114 for the blog discussion.Deborah Meadows