tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-316884372249589308.post6530375674829929526..comments2024-02-28T02:21:20.040-08:00Comments on Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog: The Rules of Poetry Xris32http://www.blogger.com/profile/12204550583061791755noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-316884372249589308.post-77632550089069146572017-10-04T04:51:31.175-07:002017-10-04T04:51:31.175-07:00'Form' (ballad / sonnet /whatever) is a se...'Form' (ballad / sonnet /whatever) is a set of rules by which assumptions can be made/applied as to the content and intention of the poem. Even the notion of it being in poetic form attaches rules. (Poetry = meter so even in free verse, as you say yourself, the poet is choosing to ignore the rules - for a reason. It doesn't mean they don't still apply - they do it for a purpose.) On top of this, as we all know, rules are there to be broken and, in my view, it is often by diverging from a fixed metrical framework that the most profound bits of meaning are gleaned from a rule-based analysis of poetry. i.e When Shakespeare chooses to put a trochee there instead of an iamb."Most arts effect their meaning by using a fixed element and a variable." Ezra Pound. All this aside, I personally think it is essential to remember (especially at school level): that all literature (poetry especially) has rules and they, like all else (word choice, structure etc.), have no intrinsic value, they are simply used to serve and assist in imparting meaning. Especially when you break them! Thanks for your blog. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-316884372249589308.post-85116837867616840512017-09-24T11:06:05.674-07:002017-09-24T11:06:05.674-07:00Poems have rules?
Embedded in,
Cadence and content...Poems have rules?<br />Embedded in,<br />Cadence and content,<br />Rhythm and rhyme,<br />Texture and time.<br />Presence in the mind.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com