tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2120442619950502271.post569113815737399949..comments2024-02-13T07:05:32.433-07:00Comments on Of Poetry: An Easy Goin' Feller: Poem In Dialect (Dunbar)John W. Mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10462966253651386355noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2120442619950502271.post-60684125598322713522015-10-07T17:17:04.976-06:002015-10-07T17:17:04.976-06:00I love this poem. We are reviewing it in our engli...I love this poem. We are reviewing it in our english class. Thank you!<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2120442619950502271.post-55423828666997645212009-07-12T09:53:33.731-06:002009-07-12T09:53:33.731-06:00I began to do a line by line transliteration of th...I began to do a line by line transliteration of this poem so its standard syntax could be seen. As soon as I began to do this I felt as if I were doing something wrong. Two lines later I couldn’t continue- I remembered the quote: “In poetry, paraphrase is blasphemy” (I don’t remember who said this, but it sure was loud in my ear this morning). <br /><br />Anyhow, I think there’s truth to that feeling: the whole point of the poem is that it’s NOT standard syntax- Dunbar was well educated and could have easily written that way if he wished. Furthermore, to try to understand it ‘through’ Standard English is to completely negate the whole purpose of reading it in the first place. <br /><br />So I felt I should let the poem speak for itself. Thanks for reading.John W. Mayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10462966253651386355noreply@blogger.com