Grammar is incredibly important in poetry. Its absence can tell you as much as its usage. This allows you to manipulate it to your advantage and even alter the meaning of your poem. You may find that your poem naturally fits into or suits a particular rhythm. Free verse gives you the chance to do whatever you like with your poetry.
Some find it exhiliarating, others terrifying. Poetry allows us to express ourselves in a way that combines imagery with words. Had to. What ingredients do you think are essential to write a poem? Are there any rules you feel apply to every poem? Enjoy this post? Why not check out the rest of the writing ingredients series? Fiction 2. Screenplay 4. Stage plays 5. Copy 6. Kristina Adams is an author of fiction and nonfiction, writing and productivity blogger, and occasional poet.
She can be found under a pile of books with a vanilla latte. Some really sound tips for poets here, I love reading and interpreting how other writers nurture their love for poetry.
The expression of words through writing a poem of any kind, is, well, beautiful in my eyes. Poetry, in its very essence, helps people become better individuals. It helps them develop their skills, maximize their creativity, and understand the world around them. You sounded great from the onset to the full stop. I really enjoyed your post. You make so many great points. My favorite point was that the message you want to convey is what is most important.
Also the point that poems do not have to rhyme. I wrote a poem for my girlfriend and she wondered if it was poetry because it did not rhyme.
I typically do not rhyme in poems but I do in my songs. The learning curve has nowhere to go but up and like the above people I find contemporary poetry baffling. Like the comments above I cringe at criticizing modern contemporary poetry or their authors. Give me the classics and the rhyme. I read through the comments just to enjoy the rhyming poems posted.
Proof positive that adults still love rhymes. I posted my poem to a poetry group on Facebook and the poem itself delivers a very strong message. It rhymed also. Just sounds like I am talking.
I have over poems and they all rhyme. I go to poetry readings and the poems they read sound like short stories to me, although they are great stories. I am always a little afraid to read mine because they do rhyme. I have always been confused if rhyming was still okay. This article helped. What a pleasant surprise. I had thought that it was no longer respectable to admit to a liking for rhyme; however, it is now , and the last entry here was posted in Why is that?
Surely, more people have more to say on the subject. In fact, this is what led me here. One clue is that Amazon now carries neither books by Coblentz nor other books on the same theme. Poetry is truly dead. No one, with the exception of music critics, wants to listen to contemporary classical music. People still at least feign an interest in poetry. Could it be that poetry is not dead? Over the years, only about three people ever suggested rhyming less.
There I said it. I have no idea where all of you poets are from but here in Australia poetry is alive and well although, admittedly not really mainstream. We also have a genre called bush poetry, the rule is that it has to rhyme look up the Australian poets Henry Lawson and Banjo Patterson, there are many more but these 2 are the best known for their rhyming stories of the Australian bush.
There are poetry festivals all over the country and every folk music festival tends to have poetry breakfasts and poetry gigs included. Then there is the Elvis festival in Parkes every January, even they have a poetry breakfast. Rock on rhyming poets we still exist. Having written free verse without premeditation for years, I recently decided my vocabulary was weak.
As an exercise, I began studying various poetic forms. I wrote a total of poems in about a year, all of which followed formal guidelines. The result: my poetry was much more succinct, colorful, descriptive and richer for having used the discipline of forms.
To be clear however, I still have a great deal of affection for many poets who communicate very powerfully and clearly through the use of free verse. Good free verse poets choose their words as carefully as more formal poets. To claim such an adamant duality in poetry, is like missing Billy Taylor because you love J. Why limit your loves? Like other people above I stumbled on this site. I had just finished another rhyming poem, and started to wonder what the world thinks of it.
I Was interested in Helenes post from Australia about the Bush poetry. It so happens that the hero in the poem comes from the same part of the West of Ireland, along the Wild Atlantic Way as myself. Interesting also that poetry is part of folk music events. I myself am a performance poet in this bardic tradition.
That is not to say I have anything against free verse, and I have dozens of slim volumes on my bookshelves. All the great poets used rhyme. I think this is a record of its kind. Rhyming should be effortless, in the fashion of the poems I used to read, like Tennyson, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley,etc. Warren Jones- I dont know what world your from but neither poetry or classic music is dead. In our local schools there are poetry clubs and 4 out of 5 of my children have or are currently in band.
Where they inevitably perform classical music in one or more of their performances during the school year. My son Ryan just graduated and loves both Jazz and Classical music and is perusing a career in music. My daughter at age 12 commits a few days a week to working on her poetry and desires a career in writing.
Maybe its just that these things are no longer in your life like they should be. Because they are alive and well in ours and the people around us. Great article; Thank you. I write these with great ease and they always have a message. Do not feel I need to change my style as have been told by some that my poems are good and do have a strong message.
So, why change my best? All my work, with the exception of 2, rhyme. I was reading through them 4 days ago from start to finish. Family and friends, when reading my very early work, found it childish, and naturally, they would because I was a child.
But my later work, the adult stuff, they said is quite exceptional. My life. More than any person should ever experience in a lifetime. My poetry has made people cry, laugh, hurt. I like all poetry. I consider rhyming poetry more challenging.
Thank you, for the info. If not to ispire for us in our daily struggles to climb higher. That we all need art to aspire; in partisan are muses that we acquire from our daily flow rhythmic rhymes. This is our dance this our chance to live a full life. I just love the discipline involved in rhyming poetry. One thing I wish they would all do is request any kind of theme. Listen here you, rhyming poetry is the only acceptable type of poetry.
Can I just ask why oh why must there be rules around rhyming poetry? Cacophony opposes rhythm, and is abrupt to the ear. Rhyme is the matching up of sounds and syllables, usually at the end of lines. External rhyme is the rhyming of words at the end of lines. Shel Silverstein's poetry is a great example of this. Rhyme functions in much the same way as rhythm. It keeps the poem in harmony, and a rhyme scheme helps the audience to understand what is coming.
Rhyme scheme can be figured by looking at the last word in each line and assigning a letter.
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