Why do people insist on calling prose poetry?

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AUSTRALIAS LEADING EROTIC POET COLIN LESLIE DEAN

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Nearly all that goes for poetry these days is just prose
Technically you can only call something poetry if it has form ie metre

read
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosody_%28poetry%29

”In poetry, metre (meter in American English) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse “
Thus most of 20th century poetry is really just prose as it has no form or structure and most of what is called poetry on poetry forums is really only prose

Of one of Americas great modernist poets Allen Ginsberg even William Carlos William said “most people, most critics would call (Allen Ginsbergs collection called “Empty Mirror”{1947-1953)) just prose”

Now a poem is an objective thing just like a chair or electron it is objective in that you or any one else can hear the structure of the poem. The essence of poetry is a structure without structure a work cannot be called poetry. A completely meaningless bunch of gibberish would still be poetry if it s structured as you could hear the structure Things like metaphor enjabement epanalepsis synaesthesia rhyme alliteration etc are techniques used to embellish the structure of a poem if these things are present in a non structured work then that work is not poetry-you are free to call such a work anything you want but you cant call it poetry. Poetry being an objective thing ie structure means there are objective criteria to judge a poem namely whether the structure is perfect or if there are flaws in structure The content or use of techniques are irrelevant as to say a poem is good or bad based upon these techniques is only arbitrary subjective value laden judgment-the history of poetry show how these thing come into fashion and go out of fashion A poem firstly and lastly is good or bad if its structure is good or bad.. Any other criterion is just subjective arbitrary value judgment-open to changing fashion- which have no place in judging a poem. Oscar Wilde said it correctly
“There are no such things as a moral or immoral book
Books are well written or badly written That is all”

Answer 1

More the issue is what is your point? The author made a point about writing in an article. It isn't either the Rosetta stone of information or the last word. It is an opinion.

Answer 2

i imagine it is because it calls for better artwork to comprehend. you could placed better theory into it. Plus there are not as many large poets or there are and thanks to public disinterest in Poetry their skills are not being tutor cased. Plus Poets are very passionate human beings and that i don't believe of there are as many passionate those who at the same time can domesticate there interest into captivating words. i imagine all artwork varieties are suffering (that contains:Poetry,Writing,portray,performing etc. song looks doing quite solid although). The artwork of that is thoroughly lost! i have been reading about the 18th and 19th centuries lately and am bothered with information from the version contained in the cost of artwork today and then. they somewhat valued artwork in those centuries the position we do not look to care in any respect. of course u.s. hasn't ever quite felt very captivated with artwork, that is significantly better power and political motivation. France even if is lots better valuable for humanities of all varieties! although even there i don't believe of it is almost as sturdy because it became. I do even if experience that the more youthful technology will be significantly better artwork and creatively inspired than their dad and mom who quite weren't given a chance in a international truly wanting to rigidity them into the operating classification as a replace of desiring to take area in any variety of imaginitive outlet or perhaps the desire of growing employer wise and gathering wealth. i imagine the time that artists were valued is going to make a comeback although! it is in simple terms going to take some artwork!

Answer 3

Wow, did you write this back all on your own, or did you "cut and paste" someone else's ideas?



Why do Yahoo Answer posters think "cut and paste" is the same as asking a question?



(He is right BTW)