Wendell Berry, "While Attending The Annual Convocation Of Cause Theorists And Bigbangists At The Local Provincial Research University, The Mad Farmer Intercedes From The Back Row".
PapaStevesy @lemmy.world - 9hr
Science-denying bs aside, I hate how this guy just puts line breaks wherever the fuck he wants with seemingly no consideration of flow or pacing. But then I'm not a poet, maybe there's some deeper patterns or something going on that I can't be bothered to look for.
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Applesause @mander.xyz - 5hr
Ive noticed its kindof endemic in poetry to put unhelpful line breaks which have more to do with visual consistency than any consideration of meaning. Imagine trying to read some of this stuff out loud to an audience. You can easily tell which poets considered how their poetry would be read when they were writing this way, not just how it felt coming out (which, to be fair, is quite important). Tends to be one of the marks of a better poet, but such consideration is neither required nor sufficient for good poetry it has to be pointed out.
BonesOfTheMoon in poetry @lemmy.world
Wendell Berry, "While Attending The Annual Convocation Of Cause Theorists And Bigbangists At The Local Provincial Research University, The Mad Farmer Intercedes From The Back Row".
Science-denying bs aside, I hate how this guy just puts line breaks wherever the fuck he wants with seemingly no consideration of flow or pacing. But then I'm not a poet, maybe there's some deeper patterns or something going on that I can't be bothered to look for.
Ive noticed its kindof endemic in poetry to put unhelpful line breaks which have more to do with visual consistency than any consideration of meaning. Imagine trying to read some of this stuff out loud to an audience. You can easily tell which poets considered how their poetry would be read when they were writing this way, not just how it felt coming out (which, to be fair, is quite important). Tends to be one of the marks of a better poet, but such consideration is neither required nor sufficient for good poetry it has to be pointed out.