How to make poetry
Old strict conventions vs. new, freer poetry
What are the advantages of the older forms, with stricter conventions vs. the new forms of poetry with no rules, no rhyme, different line lengths, unspecified number of lines, and complete freedom?
Half of us have written in the old forms, and half have written in free verse.
MB says that forcing oneself to figure out how to say what you want in a strict form can help you say it better. MOB asks why give up what you really want to say just to fit into the strict form? This semester, rather than merely looking to make a body of products, we will explore the process of writing in both forms to discover which suits us best. This ‘debate’ will be continued! We also need to READ many poems of both types and discuss them.
What should be included in poems?
Images and Imagery (means all the senses) so that it’s sensory, immediate, not abstract
Rhyme?
Meter: every poem has some kind of meter, though not always strict
Free verse is a form of poetry that does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern. It thus tends to follow the rhythm of natural speech.[1] Poets have explained that free verse, despite its freedom, is not free. Free verse displays some elements of form. Most free verse, for example, self-evidently continues to observe a convention of the poetic line in some sense, at least in written representations, though retaining a potential degree of linkage, however nebulous, with more traditional forms
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