I was reading another blog recently, and the guy was discussing how free verse isn't liked by so many people these days. Well, seeing as how there is nothing else but free verse out there these days, I wonder why people think poetry's such a fag. Seriously, have you read these so called 'modern' poems? If you have, honestly, how many of them do you like?
Now see, I have nothing against free verse. In fact, some of that type of poetry is extremely intense and moving. But that's not all there is, now is there? These 'modern' poets have nothing else but free verse, and that really is a cause for concern. They say poems that rhyme can't be serious, that you can't write anything serious if it rhymes. Oh come on! Free verse, except for some, really is just sentences...a break here, and a bloody break there.
What happened to all those poems of the past? They rhymed! You could read them out loud, they flowed off your lips, and you were moved by their beauty, their symmetry, how everything interconnected.
Modern schmodern...
The masters weren't free versing...they wrote symphonies with words, that felt like music without any tune. I say you can't write a love poem in free verse, show me if you can! Something comes to mind, John Keats. 'A thing of beauty' is an extract from an epic he wrote, 'Endymion'. Now that's poetry! Read it out loud and after those fifteen something lines of the extract you're in a different world. You feel what the great man must have felt when his pen was flowing over that paper like a river free. You feel the beauty that those lines describe. Beauty is felt, I've learned.
- An endless fountain of immortal drink,
- Pouring unto us from the heaven's brink.
