| Does it annoy you when people try to write a 'poem' but totally miss the
point of poetry? I'm not in favour of TOTAL rigidity in my poems as some people are but I believe in at least respecting what sounds good. By this I mean writing with meter (even if it's not remotely uniform) and using poetic devices such as assonance and consonance (even if it's not part of a rhyming scheme).
When I read poems that people have written that don't have any of these devices I feel like an artist standing in a gallery who has just seen some guy walk in off the street to exhibit a Spirograph that he's just done.
Basically what I'm saying is: break the rules if you have to - by all means! But you MUST put feeling and beauty in to it. Or ugliness. Just something! Simply splitting one of your diary entries in to multiple lines and taking out punctuation isn't poetry!
Anyone agree?
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