Poetry Bootcamp, week two and grunting

[BooMerengue]

Anyway, only the Anal Retentive insist that all guidelines must be followed inside a formula, else you cannot call it what it is .. . Me? I like to play with the chemical structure and see what blows up the laboratory. A poem works for me...

Wouldn't purist be a better description than anal retentive, Champ?

 

[champagne1982]

Wouldn't purist be a better description than anal retentive, Champ?

I don't think so, Boo. Simply since a purist will still call it poetry, the anal retentive will call it --

crap?​

 

[impressive]

I can see now where I should have reworded some of the repeating lines though technically you're not supposed to.

I like breaking rules even more than I like patterns.

 

[BooMerengue]

I like breaking rules even more than I like patterns.

But imho it is imperative one learns the rules in order to break them well.

 

[impressive]

But imho it is imperative one learns the rules in order to break them well.

Agreed. (Hence the Form thread.)

 

[Lauren Hynde]

I like breaking rules even more than I like patterns.

One of the thing I like to play with when I am trying to write a form that calls for repetition and circular structures, such as villanelles, or ghazals, or pantoums, is to make small variations in the repetition, but variations that change the meaning of the verse completely.

That way, instead of the poems coming full-circle at the end, the structure starts to resemble more like a spiral.