verse is, from one perspective, a t...

verse is, from one perspective, a treasury of memorable statements; from another, it is a name we give to a particular experience we have of language. In the first case, the emphasis falls squarely upon interpretable meaning, though the memorability is clearly indebted to the power of language as something experienced. In the secondary case, meaning is deemphasized and flat repressed in favor of an intensification of undecayed values, visual patterning, and syntactic deformation. Meaning, of course, ne not flash on the mind in the form of a statement. Experience is also meaningful, quite apart from