8FOLD: Red Hart # 2, "The Beasts Set Loose"

[Tom Russell]

On Saturday, August 23, 2014 3:38:17 PM UTC-4, Scott Eiler wrote:
> On 8/23/2014 6:37 AM, Tom Russell wrote:
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> > THE ARGUMENT.
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> > Sedenion, having escaped from his father's trap, travels to the Edge
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> > of Space and Time...
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> It seems odd to have the recap before the thing that's being recapped - 
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> but it sure helps me follow the plot.  Bravo.

Thanks. As to its placement: in longer narrative poems, an argument (if used) traditionally comes before the section it is summarizing so that amidst all the metaphors and meter, the reader can keep track of what the hell is supposed to be going on.

==Tom