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How Formal do your Write?
Question: in which milieu are you more comfortable writing, form or free? This can be applied to either poetry or prose. In poetry, this would mean traditional forms such as sonnet, sestina, haiku, ballade, etc. versus free-form. In prose, this would be more along the lines of genre versus literary, Stream-of-consciousness versus standard plot, and so on.
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Permalink Reply by Rebecca on -
This question really got me thinking about my writing style.. and I'm at a dead end.... I recently wrote a poem that I thought was free form, but someone told me I should group the thoughts more and arrange it. Being that I haven't studied forms of poetry and tend to just go with how I feel when I'm writing, I guess I'll create a new category (lol). I guess I write in a very "raw" and unpolished form. I'd be happy to send the a for mentioned poem to anyone who wants to tell me what style I tend to gravitate to :P
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Permalink Reply by Alyson on -
As economists say: "It depends."
Mostly I float somewhere between free form and stream of consciousness, in poetry and prose. At least that's been my recent inclination. I had a Dickinson phase a while back when every poem was sung to the Yellow Rose of Texas. Now, though, I like to do stream-of-consciousness exercises. I tell myself that I am forcing my brain to divulge my style. It works, too. After a straight month of nothing but rambling blather I'm beginning to discover myself as a writer. I don't stray towards Joyce or Fitzgerald or Camus (or whoever I last read) so much anymore.
I did write a super-structured poem, though. I was proud of myself. It had rhyme and meter and everything and I spent two weeks working on it. Most poems I write are spit out in a day and don't see the pen after that.
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Permalink Reply by David M Pitchford on -
I guess it would be polite to answer my own question. Yes?
I am very comfortable writing formal poetry, especially Petrarchan sonnets at the moment. Strangely enough, this is a source of discontent. Art shouldn't be too comfortable. Inspiring. Empowering. Maddening. But not comfortable. Comfort is not the place whence creation . . .
So I try to push myself now and then. I like to experiment. The formal poems are as much exercise as anything at this point. I'm totally captivated currently with ekphrastic poems based on photographs and paintings. Having always been a huge fan of Greek mythology, I tend to use a great many classical allusions. That turns some folks off, thrills others. I write to write, though. I gave up a long time ago on getting anything out of it other than the satisfaction and fulfillment of creation itself. The hardest thing I had to learn was to let go. Perfectionism is suffocating. And there's something too sterile in the consciously perfect work.
I have a Master's in English with an emphasis in poetry and poetics. It is good for a serious poet, artist of any kind for that matter, to study their art, its theory, and its tradition. But that is a long and arduous road. It requires an phathological love/commitment to the creative endeavor. Lucky for us (well, me anyway), society somehow finds value in the particular insanity we all share as this thing called art. ;-)
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Permalink Reply by Amy on -
I've never thought about this. And, honestly, I'm not sure. Most of what I've done is I think not quite correct form. I'm not sure what I'm doing now, I guess it would be stream of consciousness. I just write.
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Permalink Reply by Elathen on -
My writing adapts to the intention of the piece - as soon as I get the "core" of it in my head the voice for it just occurs spontaneously.
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Permalink Reply by David M Pitchford on
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Anyone with poetry who wants feedback is welcome to contact me about it. I've got pretty good range, and I've studied poetry for some time. Enough to think that perhaps it is overly audacious for anyone to consider himself/herself an expert. But I'm happy to give opinions, and my feedback is usually met with a great deal of enthusiasm. :)
David
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