I'm reading T.S. Eliot right now, and though I do enjoy it, I'm reminded that sometimes I think rhyming poetry is overdone and clumsy. Even a couple of Eliot's poems seemed awkward to me. On the other hand, I love Byron and Keats and many other poets through the ages who have used rhyme quite well. Overall, though, I'm suspicious of poetry that
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I also would like to point out that I'm not a big fan of poems and my favorite poem actually is the only poem I've ever liked. And the reason I like it is because a scottish guy read it in a movie... I am never going to understand poems...
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Most of the poetry I used to write fell into awkward rhyming patterns that I'm kind of embarrassed about...but after I got into 4poetry (before it turned into a depository of high school drama...I miss the good days of that comm *sigh*) I started caring more about the flow of a poem instead of it fitting into nice, neat rhyming schemes. If that makes sense...
Also, E.E. Cummings totally corrupted me.
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Yes! Unfortunately, I think a lot of the problem with the bad poetry I read as an lit mag editor was that the writers were more focused on finding two words to rhyme than on the overall flow of the piece.
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