hopefully this thread fits perfectly in this forum... anyway i am but a simple person who loves to express himself in either a story or a poem... but i always find it hard because i only know rhyming poems for that is all they teach in primary and secondary (so far). now i don't want a dense text report telling me the different types and structures of poetry but i would love some tips and some small help when it comes to poetry. for i would love to create a piece that has no rhyming what so ever for that is my goal as a casual small time poet. thank you for your input
I can't believe any education system is that deprived. You should start out by reading it if you haven't already done so and understand why the poem was written that way.
You could always have your brains beaten out by Eliot (like the allusive Prufrock). Or start of with something simple like Sandburg's "Fog". I'd suggest a specific Pound poem too, but I don't remember having ever read any Pound.
Or start of with something simple like Sandburg's "Fog".
The fog comes on little cat feet.
It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.
Oh my gosh, I hated that poem, my teacher made me write a whole page about the deeper meaning of this poem, I have the paper still I think let me find it.....
Uh... isn't "Fog" still under copyright? Should I recommend William Carlos Williams' "The Red Wheelbarrow" in its stead? Write a one-page paper for that. Then again, if I suggest that, I might as well suggest reading real haikus. Anyone sensing my Imagist bias yet? :P or notice how I handily avoid spoken poetry and contemporary free verse?
