As for rhyming, most people come to poetry through listening to popular songs and they feel that a poem needs to rhyme to be musical. But what they don't realize is that poetry creates its own internal music and doesn't need a melody or a rhyme scheme to make it pleasing to the ear. Some effects are subtle and touch us and we're not even sure why, but believe me, there is a skill beneath the words that reaches us at an almost subconscious level :)it's a journey for sure - you might also like what @tinajordan writes - there are many poets on steemit who never get noticed but they are writing lovely poems.
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Yes, it certainly is a skill I would need to learn :-) I will check out @tinajordan. Thank you :-)
BTW, I began as a poet reading Robert Frost and emulating his style, but ended up being mentored by a Toronto poet, Raymond Souster, who wrote in a free verse style akin to William Carlos Williams, so that's why I said it's a journey :)
That's wonderful! I am doing an arts degree and I'm specialising in creative writing, so I need to get up to speed with poetry in different forms.
Oh, great! You might want to check out this reference book -20th-Century Poetry and Poetics Paperback –by Gary Geddes (Editor) No relationship to me - McLuhan used this as his sole reference in a 4rth year Modern Poetry course I took with him at U of T
Ahhh right, will check it out through the summer months in preparation. Thank you! At the moment I am on ' Ideas on authority' which is ok but I can't wait to start the creative writing parts.
sounds good :)