1. Do not write any poem using the pronoun I, unless that I has a completely fictitious referent.
2. If your language is indistinguishable from common speech, give up poetry.
3. Rather than write directly about an emotion, reconfigure it in some imaginative manner.
4. If you write a poem and it sounds like a transcript of a therapy session, throw it away.
5. Do not write any poems about your grandchildren, your pet cat, or the natural beauty of the New England woods.
6. Avoid any declamatory, hieratic, or self-important tone that might infect your poem with Portentous Hush.
7. Write as much satirical, comic, and erotic verse as you can, and make sure that it is highly offensive to somebody.
http://www.expansivepoetryonline.com/journal/cult122001.html
I think some of these points are well argued opinion, but there seems to be little substantiating evidence to back it up. basically this list can probably be argued for or against and if I had any brain what so ever I would have left it alone, but I didn't
2. If your language is indistinguishable from common speech, give up poetry.
3. Rather than write directly about an emotion, reconfigure it in some imaginative manner.
4. If you write a poem and it sounds like a transcript of a therapy session, throw it away.
5. Do not write any poems about your grandchildren, your pet cat, or the natural beauty of the New England woods.
6. Avoid any declamatory, hieratic, or self-important tone that might infect your poem with Portentous Hush.
7. Write as much satirical, comic, and erotic verse as you can, and make sure that it is highly offensive to somebody.
http://www.expansivepoetryonline.com/journal/cult122001.html
I think some of these points are well argued opinion, but there seems to be little substantiating evidence to back it up. basically this list can probably be argued for or against and if I had any brain what so ever I would have left it alone, but I didn't
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