What skills did you think (or others tell you) wouldn't be useful in life, but you use all the time.
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I love poetry, and study prosody pretty obsessively in my personal time. Studying the rhythms of language and the conventions we use to fine tune our conveyance of meaning seems something essentially human to me.
But I was a construction boy, and they thought my poetry love was for sissies.
But now that I'm out of that grind, I find that my poetics are in demand pretty much all the time. Poetry at its core is basically about saying something in the most condensed, evocative, novel, and affective way possible. They're like little compression puzzles. How make small thing say big thing. Ooga booga.
But yeah, I'm graduating college next month, and one thing I heard over and over again was, "That's the most concise way I've ever heard that put" which makes me proud for all the hours I've put into studying poetry.
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I love poetry, and study prosody pretty obsessively in my personal time. Studying the rhythms of language and the conventions we use to fine tune our conveyance of meaning seems something essentially human to me.
But I was a construction boy, and they thought my poetry love was for sissies.
But now that I'm out of that grind, I find that my poetics are in demand pretty much all the time. Poetry at its core is basically about saying something in the most condensed, evocative, novel, and affective way possible. They're like little compression puzzles. How make small thing say big thing. Ooga booga.
But yeah, I'm graduating college next month, and one thing I heard over and over again was, "That's the most concise way I've ever heard that put" which makes me proud for all the hours I've put into studying poetry.
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