Poetic Fashion Options

[Guest_Nina_*]

Fran has raised the question of use of adverbs being unfashionable a couple of times on threads  which I hope she doesn't mind me quoting.

Is there a single verb for 'tread eagerly' that would let you loose the adverb? I quite like adverbs (as does JKR, lol), but they are rather unfashionable these days

again, would 'loom' or similar enable you to loose 'tower menacingly' ?

Why is it unfashionable?

Why should one follow the trend and lose the adverbs simply because it is not the "cool" thing to do so?

Who dictates what is or isn't the "in" style?

I thought poetry was about originality, leading not following and personally I can't understand this point of view.

Discuss please.

Nina

[Guest_Jox_*]

Fran,

>F>Milk it for what it's worth

If we spend too long on it, people may become cheesed-off. So you have to whey-up the pros and cons or you-ghert people upset. As Dickens wrote:

"It is a far, far butter thing I do now than I have ever done before."

(Cow-Tail of Two Cities).

J.