10-21-2021, 10:20 PM
thanks for the reads!
@Kerbonzo_beenz i think by same length, you mean metrical? a lot of people here do that, although the one who's produced many of my favorites is unfortunately deceased (RIP Leanne). there are a lot of resources on forms and meter recommended on this site, here's one i started with way back: http://www.pigpenpoetry.com/thread-10501...ht=prosody
i would bump learning about prosody and forms from "recommended" to "required" at this point, as you'll find yourself using those terms a lot, or at least having to relate to writers who think that way, even if their verse is the freest and most experimental verse there is. an example i like to put out, as always, is Louise Gluck, whose earliest books often included stuff with meter -- eventually, she abandoned meter, but I'm sure (and judging by my experience, perhaps even know) that her command of free verse often comes from her understanding of how meter and such was and still is used to standardize or even manipulate emotion. a more specific, if to the uninitiated arcane, example: there's a reason why ending on a stressed syllable is called "masculine", and unstressed "feminine", aside from patriarchy xD
@Kerbonzo_beenz i think by same length, you mean metrical? a lot of people here do that, although the one who's produced many of my favorites is unfortunately deceased (RIP Leanne). there are a lot of resources on forms and meter recommended on this site, here's one i started with way back: http://www.pigpenpoetry.com/thread-10501...ht=prosody
i would bump learning about prosody and forms from "recommended" to "required" at this point, as you'll find yourself using those terms a lot, or at least having to relate to writers who think that way, even if their verse is the freest and most experimental verse there is. an example i like to put out, as always, is Louise Gluck, whose earliest books often included stuff with meter -- eventually, she abandoned meter, but I'm sure (and judging by my experience, perhaps even know) that her command of free verse often comes from her understanding of how meter and such was and still is used to standardize or even manipulate emotion. a more specific, if to the uninitiated arcane, example: there's a reason why ending on a stressed syllable is called "masculine", and unstressed "feminine", aside from patriarchy xD