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April 2: Rambletime. "Pohum," for mediocre poem, "pohymn" for good poem. Also: "priory," "prepresenty," "presentry," "preterity" and "posterity": those who were alive before us, those alive now but living in the past, those living in the present, those alive who are capable of viewing our culture as posterity will and those who will be the future's presentry. The new terms here came up after I realized that I'm not writing entirely for myself and posterity, so need a name for those very few of the present day who think me worth reading. It was "preterity." That's you guys. Thanks. I hope that at least some of the time I'm part of preterity for you and what you're doing.
That's it for this entry. I'm circling in on the Frost poem, but don't want to post on it until I have a full appreciation done. My latest idea is that some poems (as mechanisms), maybe all good ones . . . maybe even all poems, act, or can act, as juxtaphors (implicit metaphors) for what they are about. So seems the Frost poem to me.
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