Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Great Regulars: At the present time there

is a manifest preference for the "conversational" in poetry--the style of "direct speech," opposed to the "oratorical" and the rhetorical; but if rhetoric is any convention of writing inappropriately applied, this conversational style can and does become a rhetoric--or what is supposed to be a conversational style, for it is often as remote from polite discourse as well could be.

from Daily Times: Purple Patch: 'Rhetoric' and poetic drama --TS Eliot

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