http://wordie.org/words/trope Comments for the word 'Trope' http://wordie.org http://wordie.org/words/trope#comments Thanks, V, for posting this. Haven't read it in quite a while. :-) Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:21:29 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/trope#comments http://wordie.org/words/trope#comments Very nice. Have you considered creating a <a href="/words/Poetrie">Poetrie</a> list? Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:35:20 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/trope#comments http://wordie.org/words/trope#comments The first time I encountered this word was in Adrienne Rich's poem, Poetry I:<br />Someone at a table<br />under a brown metal lamp is studying<br />the history of poetry. Someone<br />in the library at closing time<br />has learned to say "<a href="/words/modernism">modernism</a>,"<br />"trope," "<a href="/words/vatic">vatic</a>," "text." She is<br />listening for shreds of music, he is<br />searching for his name back in the<br />old country. They cannot learn without teachers.<br />They are like us. What we were. If you<br />remember. In a corner of night, a voice<br />is crying in a kind of whisper more. Can<br />you remember when we thought the poets<br />taught how to live? That is not the<br />voice of a critic, or a common reader.<br />It is someone young, in anger, hardly<br />knowing what to ask, who finds our lines,<br />our glosses, wanting in this world..Damn, but I love Adrienne Rich. Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:55:31 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/trope#comments