What's with Free Verse??
I'm not gonna lie-- I have no appreciation of free verse. I just can't get into it. It's the most pretentious stuff I've ever read, and I can't believe it's so popular. WHY? Why does free verse...
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Sam, bless you for asking the question. I think you've actually asked two questions, though, one about experimental poetry and one about free verse more generally.First, about the poem you post:...
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Quote:It does what Pound called for when he said "Make it new." Not to put too fine a point on it, but that's not entirely true. It's what he got, sure, but it's not what he thought he was asking for....
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Sam--If you are truly interested in the historical and cultural background to the ascendancy of free verse over formalism (and don't mind reading a rather long treatise) I recommend Timothy Steele's...
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Mike wrote:"The thing is, I've heard wonderful poems in each of these disciplines..."Mike, I devoutly wish I had your breadth of knowledge about these branches of poetry. What I'd love to read, in...
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I write both formal poetry and free verse. It seems to me that certain subjects, or certain approaches, call for one or the other. I have three groups of readers/listeners: those who say "stop writing...
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Free Verse is just so broad a genre that it encompasses...well, just about anything. That's why it's so free, I suppose.In schools where I come from, it's hard to get students interested in meter...
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Quote:I wonder if free verse gets published because people don't find it as arty-farty or intimidating as traditional forms.In some venues, I have gotten the impression that the attitude was that...
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I wrote up a long post in response to this thread, but the damn thing logged me out and the post didn't take. So here is the long post in shorter bullet points.1. Have you ever noticed that even...
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Bravo, Quincy. As a writer of both free verse and formal poetry, I agree with you wholeheartedly.Margaret
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One additional point to make--given the reigning free-verse orthodoxy, it would stand to reason that most godawful poetry would be in free verse, including the acclaimed godawful poetry. One hundred...
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Just noticed a bit of spam on this board that actually compares rather favorably with the poem Sam initially posted. Since I imagine the Mods will delete the Spam soon, here it is in poem...
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Would it be plagiarism to save this and submit it to something? I mean... "Hello" could be a big deal in the free-verse world.Also, where's Leo? Hopefully just enjoying his holidays... come back!
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I think "Free Verse" went wrong when its freedom was sacrificed on the altar of lacking rhyme and rhythm. (When and why the remains were sacrificed on the altar of lacking reason, I won't guess.)Here...
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Sam--I have know idea what is or isn't legit when it comes to "found poems." In this case, my tongue was firmly in cheek.Don--I think you've hit on a crucial distinction, that between attempts to...
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(On my earlier comment where I talked about the difference between a poem and a recipe, the two links lead to instances of the respective items - with an unexpected similarity...)Now, here's a bit of...
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An example of good free verse, in my opinion, is what Charles Bukowski wrote. However, if you take out the rather arbitrary line breaks, you basically have prose.Most of what gets written as free...
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