![]() ![]() Different poets are born with different temperaments, and the nature of their temperaments determines essential qualities of the poems they write. ![]() This form-giving gift is more important than any other a poet might possess. i Corinthians 12:4 I'd like to propose that poets are born with a certain innate form-giving temperament that allows them to forge language into the convincing unities we call poems. scripts with a note saying, "a little more savoir faire, please." I m>\\ understand, I think, what he meant by this arch and arrogant advn \\Four Temperaments and the Forms of Poetry Now there are diversities of gifts but the same Spirit. A friend who once edited a poetry magazine used to return in.11 u I content can a poem contain? Until rapture ruptures? The easy answc i and the only true one is that it will take as much as it takes. In capable hands, they demon strate freedom, give pleasure, celebrate artifice, react against convcn tion, and illustrate the healthy, complex earthiness of the maker, lim how much digression, wildness, lack of control, tumult of style. A fish's tail, snakes coupled with birds, the tame and the savage lanr.li ably or horribly joined. ![]()
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