2007-06-23 04:31:55 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Poetry
No...it's called free verse when it doesnt...so feel free to be through your writing!!
2007-06-23 04:35:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Poems do not have to rhyme but they do have to have some sort of rhythm to the language; they need imagery and creative expression.
I used to teach poetry appreciation at the college level. I always began a class by asking the students what they thought constituted a poem. Most people feel comfortable with the rhyming forms of poetry...from nursery rhymes to sonnets, but rhyme is not a requirement.
2007-06-23 04:41:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, not at all. Truthfully, rhyming is harder than it looks. It's not just get a rhyming dictionary and go to town. Forcing rhyme will ruin a poem faster than just about anything.
2007-06-23 07:10:36 · answer #3 · answered by Todd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I actually prefer ones that don't. Seems like sometimes poets, in an effort to keep things rhyming, use ineffective or inappropriate words just so it WILL rhyme. I just like the rawness and brevity of the writings that evoke a strong picture or emotional response from me.
2007-06-23 07:24:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Poetry can flow and be beautiful without any rhyme at all. It might be 'funner' (lol)... to read when it DOES have rhyme, but in no sense does it HAVE to.
Hope this helps...
Enigmatically,
rebel angel
2007-06-23 04:39:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no...some of the great poets...Alan Ginsburg, Aurther Rimbaud, Nikki Giovanni write in prose and also free verse. Your poets that write about social issues...use prose or free verse....check out the above and Gary Snyder...Sylvia Platt and Anne Sexton
stephenr4
2007-06-23 04:42:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, not really poems are word from heart, that when some one reads them, you make them feel the word by your writing.
2007-06-23 05:29:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No not at all. There r different types of poems. Haikoo 4 example. Its not about the rythmn, its about the words. ;)
~JJ
2007-06-23 04:36:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Roses are red
Violets are blue
All poems rhyme,
This one doesn't.........
2007-06-23 04:41:36 · answer #9 · answered by Chuck T 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no go to the 1950s called the Beat Generation.
no rymes. Alan Giznberg was one of the famous ones.
check it out
2007-06-23 04:39:53 · answer #10 · answered by Michael M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋