Again Today

[Tiger the Lion]

Again today

another poem
dead 
of cliche

[Achebe]

How about 'breathes its last from' instead of 'dead of'? Kinda underscores the point.

[Erthona]

Yeah, I like the "from" better myself.  There is no rule of thumb with from/of, but with certain words one just seems to work better, while at other times it makes no difference in terms of grammar.

He died of a heart attack -- or-- he died from a heart attack.  To me the first one seems as though it should be "an" instead of "a" which we know is patently absurd; still there seem to be word patterns that seem to work better a certain way and I think this one is the case. Just my thoughts.


dale


PS Glad to read you again. Probably more my fault than yours(my absence I mean), but I generally find myself having a liking for your work.

[RiverNotch]

i rather like dead of -- i bet the preference is regional. does it matter? perhaps in terms of letter count: the compliment to the poem being dead being so short and having its own line really kills. small possibility that with the title another is redundant, though, but otherwise a service.