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  1. Harmonic distortion, which is one way I am thinking of what I write (a cadence that might not be unusual but is unnatural for its diction, in writing that does not belong, its music as a sort of grotesque non-thing) may allow the listener to hear the melody even when there in fact is no pitch.

  2. Let’s suppose then a poem is that interplay between meaninglessness and distorted music:

    poem=music/noise^2 

    So without noise the poem is undefined, which could be one way of thinking of the front page: its claim that poetry without noise is not art, has no poetic.

In this poem, by Zukofsky, some words seem more attention grabbing on the page than out loud, which creates meaning from the absence of music.

“What are these songs
straining at sense—
you the consequence?”

Anew 10

‘straining’ seems unclear, as if feigned insincerity, perhaps due to the visual and semantic meaning of the ‘s’ being met by eyes before ears, due to a potential pun and the audible music (the surprised and slow tone of the poem make the variation in sibilance somewhat redundant compared to the tight and elegant pattern of ‘s’) being less memorable (all of which is underlined by the closing rhyme and brevity of the poem), so that when I return to the line-break it seems non-musical.