Let's Discuss

[Pomplemous]

Can I ask something - let's discuss wirting - let's discuss poetry, let's discuss styles and influences and prose and such.

Who are your influences? How do you go about writing a poem? What kinds of books do you enjoy and what would make you want to read a book twice?

What makes you read a poem - when you hover over the title you can see the first few lines, what makes you want to read more?

 

[Pomplemous]

ok not much use me saying that and then forgetting to come back and start it off!

Ok - so what puts you in a frame of mind to write a poem? do you write mostly when you are happy? pissed off? depressed? tickled? tell me!

do you like to write to music? not just poetry I hasten to add. anything? do you read poetry? if so do you have favourites? mine is Seamus Heaney

what makes a good poem for you? rhyme? rhythmn? reason? er... 'rithmetic? (lame joke)

talk words to me.

 

[human paraquat]

some of the best poetry ive written was inspired by sexual encounters, hangovers, depression, loneliness,...etc.

some of my favorite poets...shakespeare, william blake, arthur rimbaud, sylvia plath, robert frost, umm e.e. cummings, t.s. elliot, william yeats, allen ginsberg, langston hughes, carl sandburg

good poetry to me is ORIGINAL, thoughtful, and eloquent....i hate poetry that tries too hard (more concerned with verbosity and huge words instead of conveying meaning and having substance)

 

[Pomplemous]

i agree - sometimes the best message is the simplest one - that's why i enjoyed wordworth and his more concern with the common man rather than many airy fairy poets -

but its not just the thought andm eaning I think - but some wonderful works or writing are even just playing with words - see how they work together.