ronb@tekgds.UUCP (Ron Blair) (10/03/83)
I tend to agree with R. C. Call about the amount of work needed to make good free verse. It seems reasonable to expect verse appearing here to have had that work but maybe it is the best the author can do. If the piece still conveys (even partially) some meaning, I still want to see it. If it continues, I will just skip over that author's next piece. There are some emotions like self pity that can get really yukie in a poem (or any other medium) and I would skip them too. There are bunches of folk out there who know a lot more about poetry than I do. Perhaps some examples of *good* free verse would be in order. What are your ideas of good poetry? When you read/heard it something stuck - the author succeeded in communicating some concept. What was it? Pointing to a piece to show how, in comparison, another piece might be improved (without sarcasm or anger) would be interesting to me. This IS a good place to discuss things like this. There have been some rather hot remarks but that is probably healthy. Cool the flames and bring on the verse (free, cheap, or expensive)! Ron B. ...tektronics!tekgds!ronb