Poets
     who write 
               in traditional forms 
                                 based on meter and rhyme
chunk their poems
                  but
                  in a different way 
                         from graphic syntax,
                                       which chunks 
                                                    based on grammatical units.
Both,
     I believe,
can make text easier to comprehend.
 
My students report
                       that they can understand difficult texts better
                                                             
--- On Sat, 12/6/08, Carolyn Hartnett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

From: Carolyn Hartnett <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Graphic Syntax
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Date: Saturday, December 6, 2008, 9:51 AM






Isn't the way much poetry is printed somewhat similar to graphic syntax?
It makes poems easier to read, I believe.
 
Carolyn Hartnett
Professor Emeritus, College of the Mainland
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