Two schools of Thought.

poem in rhyming quatrains

Two schools of thought.

 

The lady chose to take offence

Although I said she wrote fine prose

She may not know the difference

 between poetry and prose

 

  She thought that she wrote poetry

But what she wrote was free form prose.

I offered no apology

 It was not my fault that she chose.

 

Not to learn the basic rules

 defining prose and poetry

Two very different writing schools

in which to show your artistry.

 

The so called experts can’t agree

and coined the term poetic prose.

Though writing cannot possible

 be classed as poetry and prose.

 

If it’s not metered it is prose

 no matter how poetical.

 But you’re entitled to compose.

 Fine prose and call it poetry.

 

Though I suggest respectfully

you should be proud of writing prose.

 As some do most successfully.

 But it was poetry I chose

 

Thursday, 11 March 2010

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Reviews

[angelina neves]

:) well chosen because you are very very good at rhyming and form!

as for me... well... I just love to play with words and ideas... sometimes they fit in some kind of organized form, sometimes they don't...
but i always say i'm not a poet or a writer... i'm just "me" playing around!

[MissWordSmith]

hehe. this made me smile. i like this. the rhyming was great too

[Jasmine]

I liked your poetic lesson; humorous and lighthearted.
who would have thought it... I learnt something today

[Tate Morgan]

You always touch the funny bone on humorous subjects like this one.I agree

[Lilly]

I really enjoyed reading this. Very creative and humourous.

"If it’s not metered it is prose
no matter how poetical.
But you’re entitled to compose.
Fine prose and call it poetry."

^Rather informative too!

Well done.

[An owl on the moon]

Very brilliant, moving, and at times quite comical poetic teaching on these elements of profoundly emotive communication. Wonderfully inventive!

[Brette Medb]

Haha. I liked this. Though it will probably insult someone who sees their works as something entirely different. There was humor in your POETRY but I did enjoy the lesson :)

[Alessander]

Ha! this ought to get 99 percent of the "poets" on here riled up, since none of them know anything about meter.

This is the more classical distinction, that what seperates prose from poetry is simply meter, and maybe rhyme (tho Milton thought rhymes barbaric) - but if you take this hardliner stand, then you must disqualify most poets from the last century, such literary giants as Pound, Eliot, W.Carlos William, Stevens, Plath (Even Whitman) etc who very much KNEW how to write in meter, but did so very loosely or not at all. But if that's what a hardline formalist deems, so be it. Sticking to the semantic guns, no matter where the conclusions may lead...

It also should be noted that meter and rhyme are ENGLISH conventions that were adapted from the French when they conquered the Anglos - In French, meter and esp ryhme is very much needed to disinguish prose from poetry, more so than even in English. Other languages use different conventions (even OLDE English) such as syllables, alliteration, blah blah blah.
Anyhow, "Vers Libre" propounded by early modern writers was an EXPIREMENT to see if other conventions and rhetoric (beside meter and rhyme) can be as successful - some say yes, while other say no - and I suppose those are the two schools, though the latter are in the minority for the time being.
k, that was a needless lecture lol good write. thought provoking.