Monday, April 27, 2020

Paper is Stating the Poems Summaries

Paper is Stating the Poems' SummariesBut let's have a bit of the paper is stating the poems' summaries. First, I'll outline them for you:Poems are about lines. And they don't take their titles from words on the page. So that's not a good place to start, so for some more ideas, I'd like to get a little more poetic and express them in what you can imagine.Here, let me help you think of some metaphors... No, I'm not talking about saying I want to be doing something you're already doing (yuck), nor am I suggesting literal choices, as if you need to choose one word from some other song or poem. In my view, though, they are available (just like the poet himself) and a good one can make them sound a little more plausible than the line just described (the song I'm thinking of is 'Lost') could.OK, next up on my list of words, for now, I'd like to mention word patterns (two consecutive syllables). But they don't have to necessarily have to be two syllables. They just have to rhyme, and there a re lots of options here.Here I would mention one more idea that is a bit more original, and it's a lyric. See, one idea I had for the paper was a list of things that, over time, one had been used to: monosyllabic and invariable nouns, independent verbs, nouns without suffixes, and just two consonants, -n, and -f. (For example, the word 'happy', a word I used, since I don't like to use words like 'good'bad' but it makes the description a little more precise.) I think this has its appeal for this purpose: just use words that go together, and then bring it all together with a happy lyric (perhaps even a poem.)One-syllable words come from the alphabet with the end in -ing. And I thought, perhaps, we could consider how 'learned' they are - they get used more often. And thus, one might say, learned nouns tend to be one-syllable, but adjectives (tend to be three-syllable) and verbs (ten syllables). But I must confess that I'm not much of a lexicographer, so I don't know if that's really va lid, but it strikes me as funny.After that, we come to the transitions. I see, a bit later, that they are probably written by hand and marked in the margins, so I've put them at the end.

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