Reduit Poem by Douglas Scotney
Reduit
It's an inner last retreat;
but do the English say it
re-do-it
or re-doot,
or re-dew-it
or re-dewt,
or re-dwit
or re-dwite?
What's right
is ray-dwee.
To that they said, 'Get Out! '
and changed 'reduit' to 'redoubt'.
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Topic(s) of this poem: language
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
a 'redoubt' too is an inner last retreat.
reduit is french.
reduit is french.
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