01-22-2013, 11:21 AM
half right 
It won't hurt this poem to explain it because it's not really that profound, it's a rant -- the one thing that annoys me more than anything else on poetry forums or in the wider world of writing/publishing/reading poetry is the fighting between factions. Free versers call formalists old-fashioned and make ill-informed comments about rhyme being limiting or sounding like Dr Seuss -- and formalists accuse free versers of just writing cut up prose. The fact is, good poetry of any kind takes work and is just poetry, with no need for labels.
It won't hurt this poem to explain it because it's not really that profound, it's a rant -- the one thing that annoys me more than anything else on poetry forums or in the wider world of writing/publishing/reading poetry is the fighting between factions. Free versers call formalists old-fashioned and make ill-informed comments about rhyme being limiting or sounding like Dr Seuss -- and formalists accuse free versers of just writing cut up prose. The fact is, good poetry of any kind takes work and is just poetry, with no need for labels.
It could be worse