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+title: "The Poem - Lyric,  Sign, Meter by Don Paterson"
+date: 2023-10-09T11:56:52+01:00
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+summary: "A book about poetry."
+---
+
+I heard about this on the Frank Skinner Poetry podcast - he had read it.
+I am determined to record my notes on the book here.
+
+These will be rudimentary, childish, half-baked and of no use to anyone - probably not even me.
+
+As the *Preface* makes clear, the book is basically three long essays.
+Part 1 is "accessible to lay readers".
+Part 2 is domain theory.
+Part 3, on metre, is technical and only of interest to "specialists and students".
+Despite that warning, if I get there, I will probably at least try to read Part 3.
+
+## Part 1: Lyric: The Sound of the Poem
+
+### Poetry and Music
+
+#### Poetry is probably a mnemonic system for preliterate cultures
+
+Obvious example:
+
+> Where did you get those tasty strawberries you had the other day, Tommy?
+
+> *I got them by the river*  
+> *The bit of the river shaped like my quiver.*
+
+> *There by the pit*  
+> *Where we do our shit*  
+> *A nice field of berries*  
+> *Go there and pick.*
+
+I said it would be childish.
+
+Includes stories, histories and geneoligies. The first form of external storage for the brain, perhaps.
+
+Art's memorability.
+
+*Mnemosyne*: the muse of memory.
+
+#### Poet and reader agree to an imaginative contract
+
+The deal is that the poet and the reader bring an abundance of imaginative energy to bear on the poem.
+
+This can bring into reality a dimension that is denied to other forms of speech and writing.
+
+#### The raw material of music occurs without humans
+
+A wind whistling though the grill on a door to the laundry room in the stairwell of a brutalist East European tower block.
+
+A drop of forest rainwater off the tree canopy, plonking into a hollow log.
+
+A great deal of sense can be made of a conversation through a wall.
+
+> *This makes sense. Our [cats]({{< ref "/blog/cats/cat_kills" >}}) don't understand what we're saying but they take get the idea mostly from tone.*
+
+*Song* is a distinctly human business.
+When whales and birds make song - which can be beautiful - it is about territory or sex.
+
+#### Poetry introduces music into language
+
+Word can be called into another person's presence and have their meanings yoked together by the repetition and arrangement of sounds.
+Going back to the idea of the memory device, this gives the words a better chance of "hooking" on a single reading.
+
+### Memory
+
+#### Poetry seeks to transcend the human limitations of memory
+
+The reading and intonation of a poem can be emphasised to enhance the memorability.
+Go listen to [Tennyson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson) reading one of his, or [T.S Eliot on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqvhMeZ2PlY).
+They practically sing it.
+
+#### When you remember a poem, you own the whole thing
+
+This is not the case with a story or a novel, where you might be able to recall the story, but you certainly can't recall the whole thing from memory.
+You can with a poem.
+They say memorising a poem is a good thing, which is probably related to this.
+
+The poem is a little machine for remembering itself.
+
+Is memorising a poem a good thing, though? Or is it a *bad* thing?
+
+#### Mnemonic devices: brevity, patterned and original speech
+
+I've highlighted and underlines these in the book so they must be really important.
+This is why, because you can come up with a nice bulleted list:
+
+- *brevity* of speech is the poem's most basic formal strategy
+- *originality* of speech is its most basic literary virtue
+- *patterned* speech its most basic identifying feature
+
+And these all arise naturally from the composition process.
+This is intriguing, and I want to get there, but there are several hundred pages of dense reading and note-taking to go before I do.
+
+#### Poetic speech is made under two conditions: urgency and shortness of time
+
+The former is *inspriation*, the latter is *form*.
+The result is the cultural convention, *the poem*.
+That kind of makes sense.
+
+Needing to jump start the imagination part of this in writing workshops, through the use of trivial games such as word-association or other pump-priming techniques, is unnecessary.
+If the imagination needs to be jump-started in this way, perhaps it's better left dormant.
+(He has a point here, but I've been in the camp that's needed a jump start, so I don't want to be too hard on myself).
+
+This is a nice line that I am going to quote verbatim from page 13 (yes, I am only that many pages in):
+
+> *Language behaves in a curiously material-like way and, placed under the dual pressures of emotional urgency and temporal restraint, it will reveal its crystalline structure and intimate grain; whether written or spoken, it becomes rhythmic, lyrical and original.*
+
+[To be continued...]
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