Sturgeon Posted October 25, 2015 Report Share Posted October 25, 2015 I thought this article would be terrible, but it's actually pretty good.I, for the record, am an atrocious poet. Also, he sucks off Yeats, which is fine by me: Don’t get me wrong! Sometimes Poet Voice is an effective and affecting style. Quoting William Morris, W. B. Yeats once said before a reading, “I am going to read my poems with a great emphasis on their rhythm. That may seem strange if you are not used to it…It gave me a devil of a lot of trouble to get into verse the poems I’m going to read. And that is why I will not read them as if they were prose.” Then he proceeded to read his famous poem, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree,” in a Poet Voice to end all Poet Voices. He’s basically singing. It sounds amazing, and not only because he’s got a great tenor but because his employment of Poet Voice matches up with the style and content of the poem—they make sense together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter_Sobchak Posted October 25, 2015 Report Share Posted October 25, 2015 I prefer my poets to be from the 19th century, Scottish and terrible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted October 26, 2015 Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 Every good poem that will ever be has already been written. Sturgeon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted March 31, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2016 Every good poem that will ever be has already been written. It feels that way, doesn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrashbotUS Posted April 1, 2016 Report Share Posted April 1, 2016 I only know rated X poems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xthetenth Posted April 2, 2016 Report Share Posted April 2, 2016 I only know poems about the men of a town in Massachusetts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted July 18, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2016 Jamie DeWolf (great-grandson of L. Ron Hubbard) showing us how it's done: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mogensthegreat Posted October 5, 2016 Report Share Posted October 5, 2016 I personally really enjoy reading skaldic poetry, especially in the original Old Norse versions. The common metrical pattern, drottkvaett, has some pretty confusing rules, and it's amazing that the skalds of the day would be able to compose and memorize 40-verse epics. One of my favorite single verses, by Egil Skallagrimsson ca.925: I've been with sword and spear' slippery with bright blood where kites wheeled. And how well We violent Vikings crashed! Red flames ate up men's roofs raging we killed and killed and skewered bodies sprawled sleepy in town gate-ways. As you can Imagine, many skaldic poems, like this one, had to do with wars or battles or stories of lords and kings, and the rest are Norse myths. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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