Amusing Replies to a Professor Why do poets write poetry?
That is one of 18 questions which have been addressed to the poets of England to form the subject lecture at King's College by Prof.
W. Scripture, Professor of Experimental Phonetics in the University of Vinna, Among other questions put to the poets were:—Do you think of the forms of iambus, troches, anapaest, and dactyl?
Do you simply write the thoughts as they come with no thought of rhythm or metre?
How do you get our poems?
Amongst replies received were the followin, "The subject is too vast to write about. Between the poet's complete subconscious dream and the scholar's delicate composition there are all possible degreos."—Ronent Princes.
"To attempt an answer would be ike pulling, a rose to pieces to find where the odour comes from"—
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