What is meant by 'Trying to sound poetic'?
I've heard some writers and teachers say thing like "he was trying to sound poetic", like that was a bad thing. When they were referring to a poem. Does this mean poems should not sound like poems? Or...
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I would suspect that the phrase does not end there: it implies "but not succeeding". One would use the expression for a poem that had all the correct "ingredients" to be a poem, but was not one in...
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Yes, what Tim said. In my experience, the phrase, when attached to a particular poem or style of writing, also implies an exaggerated application of "decorative embellishments" - extra and lavish...
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Well, thanks, I understand better. I think a diet is in order. Let somebody else eat cake. So my impression is content should come first before sound and other trappings. If the messge is understood,...
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Quote:"In the case of poetry, is less always more?" No, not always, but it's a goal to pare away words that are not doing a specific and load-bearing job. N.
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The magic of poetry is that the punch, what makes the hair on ones arms rise, comes from the nonexplicit part. The aliterations,rhymes alusions, similies, meter, silences, in a good poem all carry the...
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