01-06-2026, 09:51 AM
I enjoy them, but as I’ve written elsewhere, you can have too much of a good thing.
I had written a poem about it a while ago (apologies for plugging my pome in): https://www.pigpenpoetry.com/thread-26404.html
But I would definitely like to write like a William Carlos Williams or an Ezra Poind. It may not be my cup of tea, but it’s a skill that should be learnt.
I wonder though, if poetry loses its spontaneity with too much learning. There is the craftsman and there is the creator. Ideally, you can be both, but perhaps being very good at one necessarily comes at the expense of the other. Like an LLM, you get too well trained on a narrow dataset
I had written a poem about it a while ago (apologies for plugging my pome in): https://www.pigpenpoetry.com/thread-26404.html
But I would definitely like to write like a William Carlos Williams or an Ezra Poind. It may not be my cup of tea, but it’s a skill that should be learnt.
I wonder though, if poetry loses its spontaneity with too much learning. There is the craftsman and there is the creator. Ideally, you can be both, but perhaps being very good at one necessarily comes at the expense of the other. Like an LLM, you get too well trained on a narrow dataset