I think what I was trying to say here is that a lot of published poetry is without rhyme. The poetry I like best is that which incorporates rhythm and rhyme — much like the lyrics of a song. I was also trying to say that when you do see your work in print, out there for an audience to read and remark on, it looks entirely different. It has significance, it means more than it did when you first read it to yourself and decided it was good enough to share. The combination of fear, pride and exhilaration compels you to do more, and to do it better. That’s how success begins.
Thanks Lobo..OK…My cat is fat.She sat on my hat,So that was that.
Now it’s a poem.A very very bad poem.
I really hope that even people who say “rhyme=poetry” and “no rhyme=prose” can at least appreciate that a few lines of evocative free verse is more “poetic” than that bit of doggerel?
There is NOBODY on this forum who went to school when all poetry rhymed!Not unless you’re a thousand years old, anyway.
“Blank” verse stretches far back into antiquity…it has regular meter and no rhyme… It’s the poetry of Homer, of Virgil, and of Shakespeare, and is still written today.“Free” verse has neither rhyme nor meter… but became popular in the 19th and early 20th century… I’m not saying there isn’t great rhyming poetry.But if you were taught that the lack of rhyme means Walt Whitman and TS Eliot were not poets… or Marianne Moore… Dylan Thomas… and a host of others who were already published, if not long gone, before you even knew how to read…how sad.
TheSkulker about 9 years ago
That’s true. When I went to school, I was taught that poetry rhymed, prose didn’t have to. Now? Anything can be called “poetry”.
Richard Howland-Bolton Premium Member about 9 years ago
@duke, OMG!
I’d forgotten about Pam Ayers… and I’ll never forgive you for reminding me!!!!!
pelican47 about 9 years ago
And perhaps it has meter..Love the poetry of Robert W. Service.
Can't Sleep about 9 years ago
Sounds like some of you think free verse should be locked up.
Doctor_McCoy about 9 years ago
And the key thrown away.
Back to Big Mike about 9 years ago
One things for sure about our El’s verse,It couldn’t be better,or maybe it’s worse.
JanLC about 9 years ago
Lynn’s Notes:
I think what I was trying to say here is that a lot of published poetry is without rhyme. The poetry I like best is that which incorporates rhythm and rhyme — much like the lyrics of a song. I was also trying to say that when you do see your work in print, out there for an audience to read and remark on, it looks entirely different. It has significance, it means more than it did when you first read it to yourself and decided it was good enough to share. The combination of fear, pride and exhilaration compels you to do more, and to do it better. That’s how success begins.
OldestandWisest about 9 years ago
G.K. Chesterton said that calling some of the rhymeless creations he read “free verse” was like calling sleeping in a ditch “free architecture.”
SusanSunshine Premium Member about 9 years ago
Thanks Lobo..OK…My cat is fat.She sat on my hat,So that was that.
Now it’s a poem.A very very bad poem.
I really hope that even people who say “rhyme=poetry” and “no rhyme=prose” can at least appreciate that a few lines of evocative free verse is more “poetic” than that bit of doggerel?
There is NOBODY on this forum who went to school when all poetry rhymed!Not unless you’re a thousand years old, anyway.
“Blank” verse stretches far back into antiquity…it has regular meter and no rhyme… It’s the poetry of Homer, of Virgil, and of Shakespeare, and is still written today.“Free” verse has neither rhyme nor meter… but became popular in the 19th and early 20th century… I’m not saying there isn’t great rhyming poetry.But if you were taught that the lack of rhyme means Walt Whitman and TS Eliot were not poets… or Marianne Moore… Dylan Thomas… and a host of others who were already published, if not long gone, before you even knew how to read…how sad.