01-21-2021, 02:48 AM
(01-21-2021, 02:02 AM)CRNDLSM Wrote: Take a super structure, standard sonnet, cut off some beats here, add some beat there, change rhymes to intentionally not rhyme and it essentially reads like free verse. Only maybe twice as much work went in, and it still probably reads like crap.Not that I'm seeking 'confirmation bias'... but just watching Biden's inauguration and listened to Amanda Gorman (essentially the US's first poet laureate.) Yes, it had a rap beat (wasn't expecting that), but impressively read and moving.
Hmm. Confused [dot] com.
Thanks for replying. Still researching.
A poet who can't make the language sing doesn't start. Hence the shortage of real poems amongst the global planktonic field of duds. - Clive James.