Yes and No. I would think the aim of poetry is to get away from idiom and cliches. My teacher encouraged us to read pulp fiction because the cliches are amazingly similar to the ones in English and those that are different are quite humorous to the foreign ear!
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Deepa Mohan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Nothing strange about this Radhika! Being able to read pulp fiction, or > poetry, of a language, where the most idiomatic and slang usages occur...is > (I think) the acid test of comfort with, and command over, that language. > >
