Forum: Writers


Subject: What do you think a poem should look like?

A_ opened this issue on Mar 31, 2003 ยท 9 posts


Ianfe posted Mon, 31 March 2003 at 7:07 PM

Although I experimented with the classical styles for some time, I feel more comfortable with the free verse. For me (maybe because I'm a musician), rhythym is key. I need to feel the words flow one into the other, and I need to feel a cadence, even if it's only a faint suggestion, when I write my poetry. Rhyme for me is not that important. But that's just me. I've read some AMAZING stuff in rhyme. ...all this, of course, is said without taking into account the content itself, the vocabulary, imagery, grammar, etc. That's my two cents on this.