[b-hebrew] Verbs in Hebrew Poetry
Phil Sumpter
philsumpter at hotmail.com
Thu May 7 09:42:22 EDT 2009
Joe,
you're one of the few to have agreed so far. On my blog two others have shown disagreement (see comments: http://narrativeandontology.blogspot.com/2009/05/translating-qatalyiqtol-sequence-in-ps.html). I certainly would >like< Niccacci's system to work, as I find it "clean" and simple.
Dave,
>poetry in every language makes its own "rules" in accordance with the poet's immediate need<
This is new to me (not that I'm an expert!). I can't think of any examples in English off the top of my head ... On the relation between prose and poetry, I recently read the following:
"as in most other languages, poetry extends and plays on normal linguistic rules and forms." (R. S. Hendel, Margins of the Hebrew Verbal System," 153.) Therefore, to understand the verb in poetry, it is important to begin with a good understanding of the system in prose, "from which poetry takes its point of departure." (ibid.)
Philip Sumpter
http://narrativeandontology.blogspot.com/
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