How do I hate thee poetry, let me count the ways.
1) I hate the need people have to make you rhyme
2) I loathe the desire to express inner feelings in prose
3) I detest the idea of the epic
4) I'll admit I love a good limerick
It's not that I hate reading poetry, quite the opposite actually. I love a good poem, though a "good" poem is relative, and have a great deal of respect to those that can crank out a poem (I know that's not how it really works, but stay with me here). My only real issue with poetry is having to write it myself! I'm not a poet, never claimed to be, yet this week I've been put in a position where I've been forced and required to write poetry.
Normally I'd just suck it up and say "Hey, it's just a poem. What's the big deal?" But this time there was more to it. Not only did I have to write 3 pages of poetry - a challenge for me in and of itself - but I then had to print out copies for my entire Creative Writing class and let them read my less then soberly written poems, and then critique them next week. Ugh...I'll let you know how that goes.
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I think they were cute. And a few were funny as hell and of course I had my favorite, no one ever wrote a poem about me before :blushes: Love you!
~Your Green Eyed Girl
LTC Smidt, my EN102 teacher said, and I quote "Forcing someone to write a poem is about the same as telling a woman to have a red haired baby, right now!"
I believe we're all smart enough to figure that one out.
well this was a long time ago so you probably won't read it...
But...
You say:
I loathe the desire to express inner feelings in prose
... Prose is regular writing, the opposite of poetry. Prose is sentences and paragraphs while poetry is lines and stanzas. When you write a story, an essay, a paragraph, a blog, you are writing in prose.
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