I just read a New York Times article “Philosophy and the Poetic Imagination: by Ernie Lapore and Matthew Stone about how how poetry demands a certain type of reading which must be cultivated and nourished and sustained.

Here is the Permalink: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/philosophy-and-the-poetic-imagination/?smid=pl-share

What I jump to is the idea that poetry can be created out of ordinary prose with the imposition of selective line breaks. Yes, that is another example of found poetry but then they go on to analyze how the line breaks create signficance in the pauses between the lines and the juxtapositions and tensions created by links, parallelism, and balanced oppositions.

I want to do the same with a sentence from the novel that I am currently teaching my V form American Literature class. I am sure that one could find a line from Cather’s O Pioneers! whose inherent poetry could be forefronted by line breaks.