Wednesday, July 18, 2012

A Way of Reading Poetry


I read a text that inspired me to think of its syntax to be as follows:

A finger thinks about the river that types a document on a laptop drunk by a plastic dinosaur starring as a prop in the theater scene within the movie dreamed by a rock.

I thought it would be an interesting way to read poetry, should it not resist it.

Thus, I wondered whether the following piece could be strongly misread in the abovesaid way:

 Ich kinda NO, yet not not rebjonak /
Thou art so too, or, thou thinks me thinks wrongly /
Ha? If the former, comrades vi njet /
If the latter, sorry is my middle name.

If I come across an interpretation of these lines in the key of neanderthal syntaxoid semantics suggested in the opening lines of this blog entry, I might  include it in the theory book that I am writing. It looks at various ways of the impact of theoretical consumption of prose and poetry alike.

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