If there a is even one rule for poetry it might be this:
'There are no rules of poetry (& these are what they are).'
Although I do confess it's taken me many years to fully understand
this....
& we probably each construct & then deconstruct our own 'rules' as we
learn more about & keep changing the game....
I used to be pretty sure what 'defined' a poem, & then one would come
along that broke the definition, so I'd widen it, & then, etc. I
finally stopped internalizing such definitions....
Doug
On 15-Feb-07, at 1:45 PM, kasper salonen wrote:
> a poem should never have the word 'poet' or 'poem' in them, as an
> undeviating rule.
> a poem about _the_ poet is even wronger.
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