Rick,
Of course I agree with you -- word order has very important stylistic and
rhetorical implications. But you were talking about syntax, not about
style, and I wanted to point out that with the copula, and only with the
copula, word order can be reversed without changing the core meaning of the
assertion.
Tim Romano

At 09:31 PM 9/2/03, Richard Seddon wrote:
>Tim
>
>To study a poet's word choice and word order is not to make "centaurs from
>ants".  A poet's word choice and word order is the very essence of his poem.
>"The cruellest month is April" is absolutely not the same as "April is the
>cruellest month".
>
>I thought I had made it clear that I was well aware that what Kati actually
>meant in his instruction was of little direct interest to the Pound student.
>What is interesting me is how the word choice and word order of the lines in
>"The Cantos" came about and Boris's contribution to that choice.
>
>Rick Seddon
>McIntosh, NM
>
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