Friday, November 17, 2006

To all poets and wannabe poets!!

This was penned on 12/1/2000. I like this one for .... Well I just like it!!!

It's long since I've written poetry.
I want to write some now.
I've written a few before,
Now I wonder how.

Poetry, they say, is expression,
Expression of what you feel.
It flows when you're very happy
Or sad a very great deal.

Now I am feeling something,
Neither happy nor very sad.
Actually I do not know what I'm feeling,
Is that not pretty bad?

But I want to write poetry,
I want to spend some time.
Inspirations just not coming,
I am just not feeling fine.

...
I've just now noticed,
I've written sixteen lines.
It sounds poetic alright,
Like the ones I've written previous times.

I've discovered something today,
And to the world I declare this time.
You don't need inspiration for poetry,
All you need is rhyme.


You may or may not agree with the above rhyme(!) but then is that not one of the most important factors in a poetry?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Try out Milton's acerbic attack on the use of rhyme. So much for your 'all that is needed is rhyme'. Milton would have come to you with a hatchet.
... But I would have defended you ...!


The measure is English heroic verse without rhyme, as that of Homer in Greek and of Virgil in Latin; rhyme being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame meter; graced indeed since by the use of some famous modern poets, carried away by custom, but much to their own vexation, hindrance, and constraint to express many things otherwise, and for the most part worse than else they would have expressed them. Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme both in longer and shorter works, as have also long since our best English tragedies, as a thing of itself, to all judicious ears, trivial and of no musical delight; which consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory. This neglect then of rhyme so little is to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers, that it rather is to be esteemed an example set, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of rhyming

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