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Question: What Is Considered Good Poetry!?
Well, in this mad scramble to finish re-writing my novel, I thought I might pick up on poetry, but I haven't studied poetry much--besides school, but we never talk about what makes good poetry!.
Since free-verse really has no form, what is good poetry!? What qualifies poetry as being essentially publishable!?
I've always wanted to critique poetry, but I've never known what guidelines to follow in critiquing poetry, as you don't have to have correct grammar, and there's no such thing as being overly descriptive!.
And I don't plan on getting any of my poetry published!. I just want to know the difference between good and bad poetry, besides the poems being cliche!. I can identify those in a heartbeat!. Www@QuestionHome@Com
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It is very much in the eye of the beholder (now there's a cliche for ya!) I disagree that so-called "free verse" has no form!. A successful poem will usually have some sort of unifying prosody; that could be accentuals, syllabics, parallels, or whatever!. also, I feel strongly that poems should utilize proper grammar and punctuation unless there is a strong motivating factor to do otherwise (to achieve ambiguity or a colloquial flair for example)!. I generally don't see poems as "good" or "bad," but rather, "successful" or "unsuccessful" and in need of further revision!. Many of the poems posted here (especially by younger, beginning poets) are very, very good first drafts!. The problem is that the aspiring poet thinks that he or she has expressed their "feelings" and that no more work is required!. A really good book is "Poetry: an Introduction through Writing" by Lewis Turco (that is from memory, so it might not be exactly the title, but it is close)!. I can't wait to see your book!. Will you let us know when it is out!? Good luck!Www@QuestionHome@Com
I can recommend several useful books:
A Poet's Guide to Poetry (Mary Kinzie)
The Sounds of Poetry (Robert Pinsky)
How Does a Poem Mean!? (Ciardi and Williams)
The Ode Less Travelled (Stephen Fry)
They are all very accessible and provide signposts through the maze of what must truly be read, namely poems themselves!. Purchase a high quality and broad ranging anthology of poetry and read carefully and thoughtfully to see what makes each poem work!. Try to memorize several of the shorter ones you particularly enjoy and let the process enhance your own internal sense of rhythm (I have done this for several hundred poems, and it is not too difficult)!. As Yeats said so eloquently, "Nor is there singing school, but studying/ Monuments of its own magnificence!."Www@QuestionHome@Com
It's a good question! Sorry I don't have any factual answers for you, but to me - it's something that uses, like, words that really describe it well, and that you can relate to!. What makes you understand and feel what the writer is trying to say!. As a poet once said, "poetry is all the best words in the best order," or smething like that! Whatever you feel you could of written, or was written for you!
Well, what would I know! Goodluck! ;PWww@QuestionHome@Com
Good question!
What is good art!?
What is good cooking!?
I always feel that good poetry is something that turns the surroundings off while you read and then echoes like a bell in the ocean long after!.
It moves you and changes you!.
I admit this is hard to define, as what moves me may not even register a blip on your emotional radar!.
What moves a fourteen year old girl is not so likely to excite the grey matter of a fifty year-old construction manager and vice versa!. I would go as far as to say that great poetry is more likely to excite the older reader due to him/her having a greater frame of reference to judge from!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
This is not a question that can be answered in a short space!. Others will recommend books that teach the basics of poetry!. But I recommend two things: 1) Go to a book store and browse the poetry section to find something that looks helpful!. 2) Read poetry--from the classics to contemporary poetry!. You will learn through observation!. And finally, read all poetry aloud to feel the rhythm, the drumbeat that separates poetry from prose, even in free and blank verse!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
As a new writer, I ask myself this constantly! I am still learning the names of classical styles of poetry, and their rules of meter and rhyme!.
For me poetry is a way of seeing things I've always seen, from a new perspective!. If the new perspective rings true, then it's good to me!.
This probably will change as I grow as a writer!. What an adventure words have become!Www@QuestionHome@Com
Any reading in rhyme, verse, or other that you, your self can relate to or find true meaning in!.
Even comical verse has a sense of reality to some!.
If a poem holds my attention and enables my imagination or emotions to flow, then I call that good poetry!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Poetry is art so it is all about taste the best poetry captures a emotion or thought that others relate to!. I find poetry that rhymes to much sounds childish here is one of mine
cherry blossom
Feels like I am running out of time
I have waited my life for you
Seems like I could never get it right
so why are my mistakes the truth
Need 2 hold you close tonight
want to wrap around your tranqulity
Am painting a picture of myself
Your perfection is my masterpiece
Whispers fall like cherry blossom
sweet emotion a slice of my heart
once found your never forgotton
passions reaction forms in lust
Awake within my moonlight dream
the breeze picks where pettles go
craved within entwined desire
now uncertantity is all I knowWww@QuestionHome@Com
that once when u have read it u pass it on to ur friends like i do
ADOLESCENCE
Adolescence is a wonderful experience, for the youth,
Believe me, it makes them face the pragmatic truth,
For it is the correct stage of knowing
That's when really one learns about ones growing!.
To guide the youth from picking up trash,
We have to be sympathetic not rash
I know so many beautiful girls and boys,
Those with whom some guys play with, like toys,
And at times I wonder why parents do,
Leave their teenagers with relatives too!.!.
Teenagers need the comfort and confidence they lack,
Sure keepers will not take advantage behind parents’ back,
But these days relatives are the ones one cannot,
Leave their innocent adolescents with, I say dare not!.
In the lives of these innocent ones there is no fear,
And to adolescents make this clear,
They want to know more and more for sure,
How should they with their own and opposite sex endure!.
Believe you me dear parents of this world of today,
Do your best to guard adolescents from day to day!.
Do not believe blindly they will be able to fend,
For you will be the greater losers towards the end!.
SILLY ONE
As usual my nightingale you have gone,
Silly one, once again you leave me forlorn,
What makes you surely think I shall not mind,
As usually always you leave me behind!.
But I am desperate, in your love my dear,
You have left when the fun was just near!.
No you
u cannot leave me alone again
You know that for this loss you shall moan!.
!.
Come back my dearest I cannot find my way,
Without you tell me, where on earth, will I stay!?
DEAREST ROSE
I am on the edge of the threshold, Rose, with desire
Where can we alone in this wilderness meet!.
The sweet perfumes my nostrils fill with love,
As if holding you in my dreams,
Only a one time fantasy, a breath from no where,,
I pick you up, up in the air
No one ever thought that such would happen,
That too in my very engrossing dream!.,
Until your hands, felt my hands,
Desire spilled from my very being,
Nothing remained but my moistly hands,
As I smelt my palms, your face came up,
From nowhere, as a spring of emotion rose!.
At once I saw you in front of my eyes emerging,
As if from no where, as you know
It was then that I realised,
I was under your spell my dear ROSE!.
''HELLO CANADA''!.
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