Showing posts with label poetry and emotional register. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry and emotional register. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Do poets favor a particular emotional register?

serene, bucolic
angry, angst-full
personal, intimate
cheerful, bouncy
distant, withdrawn
sad, melancholic
sentimental, romantic
hot, fiery



What corresponds with food? Take, for instance, chili peppers. Is it in the mouth of the beholder? Or those who have the stomach for it.