someone wrote:
"When a novel is called poetic it almost always means that it is has no plot
and is written in the purplest of self-indulgent prose."
i truly disagree with that. have you ever read anne rice or even lord of the
flies? anne rice has a very beautiful and poetic way of writing, and lord of
the flies provocative plot and paragraphs evokes poetry into mind. this is
an odd way of writing it, but i have read so many novels and books that are
written like poetry. it is the way that they are written not the story or
plots that is poetry. simply written poetry - frost for example - is poetry,
so it's not so easy to dismiss a novel being less.
katherine,
i like the frost statement, it holds true in allot of ways to me. maybe not
to others, but it is what the poet him/her self who has the say so over
their work, and not another poet.
another person wrote:
"When one really admires a writer it can be a very dangerous thing. It was a
symptom of most of my twenties that I was paralysed with affection for some
poets I can barely read now (Philip Larkin amongst them). A large number of
people seem to go through this and some come out the other side. It's almost
as if one shouldn't care "too much" about any writer's texts, if one wants
to write at all."
oh do i ever know this. in my teens i would write like poe or plath all the
time, and i was never satisfied with what i wrote and i felt like a cheat
and wanna be. i wasn't being true to myself, but i loved to write so much. i
am not ashamed about it though, from doing this i learned how to write
poetry because i "learned from the masters" i often joke about. but, ever
since i made myself learn "my" style of writing, i have refused any other
advice or critic from other poets or writers.
as for the rest of what this person wrote.... you sound so sincere in your
statement that it was great to read a strong mind.
-annie
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I'm so far behind I'll never die.
Calvin & Hobbes
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