tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jun 30 06:46:31 1994
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Re: Why Klingon Poetry Does Too Rhyme
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Why Klingon Poetry Does Too Rhyme
- Date: Thu, 30 Jun 94 18:07:37 EDT
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>; from "Nick NICHOLAS" at Jun 29, 94 10:54 am
Nick,
Keep on rhyming. I think the Klingon literature would lose much
without your inventive contributions.
With equal passion, I would defend anyone who wanted to write
Klingon poetry that DOESN'T rhyme and DOESN'T fit meter. It is
just a different kind of poetry, and nobody should limit what
another person calls poetry.
My housemate shared a definition of poetry he read somewhere
that he liked a lot. He says that a poem is that which is
nearly impossible to paraphrase, because the form of the
language so pefectly fits the meaning that the meaning would
not stand without this particular form. Say it in different
words, and it is not NEARLY the same poem, whereas prose is
much more flexibly attached to the precise choice of words.
charghwI'