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In a message dated 02/11/2006 00:29:31 GMT Standard Time,
NABOKV-L@HOLYCROSS.EDU writes:
Is Kipling's "The Conundrum of the Workshops" poetry?
Dear Jerry,
Touche! Or, as you might say, Gotcha!
I'd read it long ago, but had to re-read it. I'll confess to playing the
Devil's Advocate, but would never aspire to be the Devil himself.
Kipling was a genius, of that I have no jot or tittle of doubt. I admire him
this side of idolatry. Were you twist my arm until it broke, I'd holler:
It's verse. But Kipling was capable of verse of such towering dimension that it
might at times o'ertop the topless peak of Parnassus. Step by step, of course.
I still feel a resolve to defend the distinction between verse and poetry.
What a waste of a word it would be if they were perfectly symmetrical synonyms
of each other. Perhaps one is left-handed and the other right-handed.
Charles
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