...I do like the statement "poetry is not craft"; defining a poetic "craft" seems powerfully to deny the very obvious fact that if you use different words you are saying something different. It's one of those things that's so fucking obvious it needs to be said again and again. And often, making that choice for what is superficially a prosodic reason IS complex, because weight and meaning--real, practical connotation-- are conveyed by sound and stress in all speech, even (perhaps particularly) that considered the most prosaic. Anyway...
...I do like the statement "poetry is not craft"; defining a poetic "craft" seems powerfully to deny the very obvious fact that if you use different words you are saying something different. It's one of those things that's so fucking obvious it needs to be said again and again. And often, making that choice for what is superficially a prosodic reason IS complex, because weight and meaning--real, practical connotation-- are conveyed by sound and stress in all speech, even (perhaps particularly) that considered the most prosaic. Anyway...
Yes. The craft is only a means to get to the poem