Why does my teacher make such a big deal about rhyming couplets?

Question

whats so wrong about them?

Answer 1

Because your teacher is narrow minded and really has no concept of his own about poetry. He is parroting what he was taught by someone else just as closed minded and poetry ignorant. Not everyone hates Dr. Seuss. Rhyming couplets are not just for children either, Shakespeare used his share of them, as well as many of the so called masters. Your teacher is wrong to teach opinions. He should stick to facts. I'll bet he's never written a good poem to compare with anything, but that is just my opinion, which could be as wrong as his opinion of couplets. Print this and give it to him if you like, I have three poetry books in print, and many of the poems in them use rhyming couplets, and are quite good.

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Answer 2

i assume you mean, you writing them, not reading?

Okay, here is the deal. rhyming couplets are usually reserved for children's books. Often times young poets force a bunch of rhymes that actually weaken the language and the message of the poem. If you aren't haivng to "make it rhyme" you are more free to express. Usually the rhyme becomes the focus of the writing as opposed to focusing on imagery or something else that will create more depth of writing.

If you look at poems with heavy rhyme (think anything William blake wrote) you have to understand that blake was A. pretty much forced to adhere to the rhyming conventions of his time, and B actually had allegorical poems. Tiger, Tiger isn't just about a tiger. Young poets tend to neglect these bigger ideas and instead string together rhymes that are trite. so yes, from the POV of an English teacher, I roll my eyes at a poem that sacrifices content for rhyme.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Your teacher is wrong to make a blanket condemnation of rhyming couplets. Ask him to read John Greenleaf Whittier's "Maud Muller" and challenge him to write anything half as good in the verse form of his choice.

One problem with reading a poem written in rhyming couplets, either to yourself or aloud, is the tendency to fall into a sing-song cadence. To avoid this, concentrate on the meaning of the words and on which words the emphasis should be placed to properly impart that meaning.

Answer 5

He makes a big deal as in he doesn't like them?

It's probably because poems that are in sets of couplets sound and appear simplistic and childish. They are like nursery rhymes or limericks; not meant to be taken seriously.

However, individual couplets do have their places, like within larger poems.