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i'm gonna post some poems i wrote.
feel free to tell me what you think!

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I personally don't fancy the free floating structure of more modern poetry. It just seems arbitrary, superfluous, pretentious, and a way to avoid actually putting thought into the form of your prose. Give me some 4x4 ABAB shit and I'm game. I don't feel qualified to speak on the content itself.

>> No.14080440

This reads like good stuff though I don’t understand it.
Serious question, how is one supposed to appreciate Cummings-style word confetti? Re-read each poem, scrutinizing every line until I get it? Or try to appreciate the aesthetics of it all and hope that the deeper recesses of my mind will absorb the deeper meaning? I read a fuckton of freeform poetry but I don’t get how I’m supposed to approach this stuff.
Anyway, bless you for posting screencaps instead of walls of text.

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bumpppp

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>>14080440
cummings usually still has strong music or meter even when his lines go all over the place. He uses the form to create certain effects to add onto normal lyrics. How to appreciate depends on which poem you're looking at. He also had a lot of normal lyrical poems.

>> No.14080581

>>14080347
Your poetry reads like bad Mina Loy. Before you try dumping jargon in poetry learn how to maximize on simple words describing plain events in an interesting way. Just place yourself next to all the mediocre free verse theoristic poets out there- how does yours sound different or unique from them?

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>>14080347
Your sisters were right