I am writing an essay about Emerson's poetry. My thesis was: Common characteristics of Emerson's potry include subject of nater, subject of religion, and rhyming.
My teacher circled "rhyming" and wrote "That's pretty narrow. Perhaps you should broaden to traditional verse forms"
So should I just change "rhyming" to "traditional verse forms"? Can I still just write about rhyming in that paragraph?
What does "traditional verse forms" mean exactly?
2007-03-12 11:24:35 · 4 answers · asked by um yea hi 4 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Traditional verse forms means that the lines follow some rime scheme, and that the meter is some consistent standard meter.
For example, much work is written in iambic pentameter, which means each line has 10 syllables alternating unstressed/stressed syllables. If you take 14 iambic pentameter lines and rime them a certain way, you have a sonnet. Don't rime them at all and you have blank verse.
Traditional verse form is as opposed to free verse, which requires no rime or consistent meter.
2007-03-12 14:46:17 · answer #1 · answered by Jamestheflame 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Traditional Verse Definition
2016-11-04 23:07:03 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Un-rhymed verse is known as 'Blank Verse', and is most often written in iambic pentameter. Free Verse is a term used to describe poetry which does not follow a specific metric pattern, or in which the pattern varies. It may or may not contain rhyme. Here is one definition of poetry: "writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm" If you can cause a reader to experience feelings or emotion through the use of imagery, you have most likely written a poem. If you prefer your poetry to be verse, well - that's cool! Whenever I write poetry, I tend to automatically gravitate to rhyme and meter, including internal rhyme, assonance, and alliteration. For some reason, I just can't help it. I wish I could write free verse like some of the poetry I have seen. Some people have a talent for it that is truly amazing. And some people just can't get it. Comparing it to visual art, imagine a still-life bowl of fruit as opposed to the works of Dali or Picasso. Or compare Debussy to Liszt in the realm of classical piano compositions. Very different - all art.
2016-04-05 00:25:51 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only part of your statement that made sense is this: "poetry is a word puzzle" and yup that's it. Read up on different forms. I honestly believe rhyme and meter limit the artist's freedom. That is up for debate, because some say that if one can write a beautiful poem following rhyme and meter they have mastered an art. But I have written poems off the cuff which I consider my best work. And some quatrains, pantoums and villanelles that are horrid. It's what art is. No one appreciated the "greats" until they were dead.
2016-03-17 00:22:31 · answer #4 · answered by Kristyn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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I am writing an essay about Emerson's poetry. My thesis was: Common characteristics of Emerson's potry include subject of nater, subject of religion, and rhyming.
My teacher circled "rhyming" and wrote "That's pretty narrow. Perhaps you should broaden to traditional...
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