grammar
grammar
G'day all, I'm wrapt to receive a commended place at Cervantes, but was wondering if anyone thinks there is something wrong with the last line in this stanza, as, it was mentioned to me recently it has bad grammar & probably stopped this poem getting some kind of place in another comp, but this is how I talk eh!
"Far from his unit and the din
he prods the campfire embers hot
and feels that feeling deep within,
a life he thought he had forgot"
Dave.
"Far from his unit and the din
he prods the campfire embers hot
and feels that feeling deep within,
a life he thought he had forgot"
Dave.
Re: grammar
Thanks Dave, there were a couple of other things the judge pointed out to me & to which I agree, but this one, I don't.
DaveD.
DaveD.
Re: grammar
Dave I guess what they meant was that in our normal every day speech we would say something like:
A life he thought he had forgotten
but then you could say the same for
He prods the hot campfire embers
Neither sounds nearly as poetic as what you have written.
Heather
A life he thought he had forgotten
but then you could say the same for
He prods the hot campfire embers
Neither sounds nearly as poetic as what you have written.
Heather
Re: grammar
Dave Bill the old Battler here. We all speak different now ain't that true but The ideals of ABPA are good
yet no allowance is made for how we write and they ( meaning judges and I mean nothing about their intensions) believe we should be all a carbon copy of correct english Language? we are Australians and this is our style of speech or is it now to me and many others I can see nothing wrong
Bill the old Battlers
yet no allowance is made for how we write and they ( meaning judges and I mean nothing about their intensions) believe we should be all a carbon copy of correct english Language? we are Australians and this is our style of speech or is it now to me and many others I can see nothing wrong
Bill the old Battlers
Re: grammar
Hi Dave
Heather is on the money with her comment
You could perhaps try it as
"Far from his unit and the din
he prods the campfire embers hot
and feels that feeling deep within,
a life forgotten? It was not"
Cheers
Maureen
Heather is on the money with her comment
You could perhaps try it as
"Far from his unit and the din
he prods the campfire embers hot
and feels that feeling deep within,
a life forgotten? It was not"
Cheers
Maureen
Re: grammar
The poetry has to have rhythm and rhyme and be Australian. If a "proper English" criteria is introduced then you've destroyed Australian Bush Poetry. I reckon.
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Re: grammar
Well,
I guess "the judges" hope that we writers are clever enough to be able to write as we speak AND keep the grammar correct at the same time. Every language has it's own syntax. (Now there is a word we have yet to address!)
I guess "the judges" hope that we writers are clever enough to be able to write as we speak AND keep the grammar correct at the same time. Every language has it's own syntax. (Now there is a word we have yet to address!)
Zondrae King
a woman of words
a woman of words
Re: grammar
I think a lot of it depends on the particular style chosen too. If the poem is somewhat formal correct grammar is probably expected, but if it is more of a colloquial thing allowances might be made.
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