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Community => Art => Topic started by: Quemaqua on Monday, January 10, 2011, 12:37:39 PM
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Happy (http://quemaqua.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2qkebm)!
There's something very warm and nice about getting a little bit of recognition and having people tell you that something you wrote resonated with them. I couldn't ask for better.
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Congrats!
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Congrats dude! I dig the piece as well.
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Thanks dudes.
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Awesome man ;D I fav'd that poem early on! I was liking it before it was cool! ;D
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Que, that is really awesome. Congrats man. Love the work there.
Do you have more people checking out your stuff now?
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Impressive imagery. I'm going to have to read this a few times. I am not well versed in the technical aspects of prose. Did you use a formal template or outline for arrangement or was it, for lack of a better term, freehand composition?
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Did you mean poetry? I'll assume so, as this isn't prose. So yes, it was done "freehand", as you say. I don't think one can really plan poetry. I suppose you could, but in many ways that would defeat the purpose.
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Yes, I misused prose. I meant poetry. I was under the impression that there were certain formats of poetry, sonnets, haiku, etc. Not that one is limited to such formats, I was just curious if you used one. I'm not sure I agree that planning a poem defeats the purpose of creating a poem. Perhaps in some cases but I suppose it depends on your definition of planning.
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There are a great many poetic forms, both rhyming and not, but a lot of these are more classical in nature. People still use them regularly, but poetry of our day has a much greater focus on alliteration and assonance for its rhyme, and often eschews meter in the strictest sense. An intrinsic understanding of form is important for a poet, as it's the understanding of form that better helps one to let go of it in ways that still hold things together. Even with most forms, however, I don't think your average poet "plans" anything other than the basic building blocks of that chosen from, or a basic idea, or even just a simple starting point. One of poetry's strongest advantages versus prose is how easily and quickly it can evolve.
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I see, thank you.