Re: Poetry Re: History of French

From: Richard Herring (junk_at_[127.0.0.1)
Date: 09/22/04 

Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 11:31:58 +0100

In message <t382l0hjidb3v99k7l0s6c4t166m5betic@4ax.com>, Mxsmanic
<mxsmanic@hotmail.com> writes
>Jacques Guy writes:
>
>> Maître Corbeau sur un arbre perché
>> tenait en son bec un fromage.
>> Maître Renard par l'odeur alléché...
>>
>>
>> I picture a crow in a tree with a
>> cheese in its beak. And, at the
>> foot of the tree, a fox, attracted
>> there by the smell of the cheese.
>
>So? That's the prose aspect of the text. It's the poetry aspect of the
>text that is highly subjective and refractory to any useful
>interpretation.
>
You'd be surprised. The long delirious burning blue doesn't make much
sense as prose, but I've a pretty good idea what Magee meant by it. 

-- 
Richard Herring