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Howard R
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Post Number: 47
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Posted on Sunday, February 15, 2009 - 3:43 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Has anyone read Carper's book, "Meter and Meaning:
An Introduction to Rhythm in Poetry"?

Did you find it of value?
Fred Longworth
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Posted on Sunday, February 15, 2009 - 4:23 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

I tend to eschew the rhythm method.
I do not wish my poems to be considered for poem of the weak. I weary from bending poems to satisfy an aesthetic I do not believe in.
Will Eastland
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Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 6:56 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

You know what they call poets who use the rhythm method, right? Parents.

Walk carefully--
your shoe is what you shine your shadow with.


~Jessica Goodfellow
~M~
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Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 9:09 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

See, you ask a serious question, Howard, and you get a bunch of coconut answers. *sigh*

I've not read the book, but I'll add it to my list. And if I can ever find some spare moments to read it (when I'm not apologizing for coconut answers), I'll definitely let you know what I think. Thanks for bringing the book to our attention.

Love,
M
Howard R
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Post Number: 49
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Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 11:27 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

You're welcome M. I appreciate your response.
Cosima
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Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 2:52 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

I'm looking for it Howard- may take awhile.

thanks ,

Frances
Arthur Seeley
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Post Number: 182
Registered: 12-2008
Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 3:03 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

In my humble opinion modern poetry has gone beyond rythm per se.
Ok when one writes a sonnet the old iambics insist although they can be overcome.

However when I write and read poetry I listen to what I prefer to call "pulse". This is the natural rythm of the piece and for me it is as accurate and demanding as any pedantic insistence of form.
Pulse should mould itself to the inherent purpose and goal of the poem

Surely we all 'feel' when a word too many or out of place has been included in a poem that has nothing to do with meaning but disturbs the pulse of the piece. Arthur
Gary Blankenship
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Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 3:16 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Or Arthur, maybe it has come back to where it started all was voice, before writing of any kind.

Smiles.

Gary
Celebrate Walt with Gary:
http://www.poetrykit.org/pkl/tw10/tw4conte.htm


Arthur Seeley
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Post Number: 183
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Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 4:41 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Of course Gary I was coming to that!
smiles. Arthur