cringing
April 5, 2006
gerunds should be excised from the opening lines of poetry.
a notable exeption is, “Turning and turning in…”
if you are Yeats, you are allowed.
gerunds should be excised from the opening lines of poetry.
a notable exeption is, “Turning and turning in…”
if you are Yeats, you are allowed.
But using any form of the verb other than the gerund would render it something other than poetry, am I right?