To foreground the form firstly sounds pompous, it sounds like 'here's me,
I'm a poet and know the forms.' Knowing the forms that prosody take
doesn't mean that the writer is a poet, it may mean that the writer is a
prosodist.
--Paul M
I don't agree. I suspect in the life of most poets, there comes a time when
they feel the need to explore the world of poetics. Try a sonnet or even
one of the Welsh forms. Attempt a tanka or ghazal for better or worse.
There is nothing really wrong with these explorations and in fact they can
help other works by the poet. Sometimes, cause it is there is a good enough
reason even if we stumble a bit. The trick is in learning when to settle
down and raise radishes.
Thanks.
Gary
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