Senna Jawa
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I see (relatively ) new participants on this poetry board. Thus one more time I'll try here to open a topic along the line of the title of this thread. I didn't have too much luck on the previous occasions, be it at Literotica or elsewhere (except for the early rec.arts.poems) but some good themes were discussed here for a while now and then.
The discussions should focus on poems, there should be no abstract talking away from verses. One may view poems from outside Literotica or by our own authors.
The interesting subjects here would be -- for instance -- about
1. efficiency of words, precision, but also presentation of verbosity (as opposed to simply verbosity), entropy...;
2. the QUALITY of rhymes;
3. selections of the palette;
4. contrast, changes of tempo, ...
5. straight narration (transparent) vs. an assumed voice
6. the main road of poetry (could be the most original) vs. what I'd call exotic poetry, meaning that the goal of the text is not pure poetry (most of the exotic poetry is junk but there are admirable exception; ordinary mortals should not use exoticism as an excuse for their feeble attempts);
7. high refined culture even when and despite presenting lack of culture (e.g. a distinction between the lack of author's culture and of a character's culture);
8.9. ... etc.
Recently, cascadiabound and me started to look at a particular usage of pronoun that; see L2 of cascadiabound's poem
This discussion could be continued here, and additional poems may provide extra illustrations.
The discussions should focus on poems, there should be no abstract talking away from verses. One may view poems from outside Literotica or by our own authors.
The interesting subjects here would be -- for instance -- about
1. efficiency of words, precision, but also presentation of verbosity (as opposed to simply verbosity), entropy...;
2. the QUALITY of rhymes;
3. selections of the palette;
4. contrast, changes of tempo, ...
5. straight narration (transparent) vs. an assumed voice
6. the main road of poetry (could be the most original) vs. what I'd call exotic poetry, meaning that the goal of the text is not pure poetry (most of the exotic poetry is junk but there are admirable exception; ordinary mortals should not use exoticism as an excuse for their feeble attempts);
7. high refined culture even when and despite presenting lack of culture (e.g. a distinction between the lack of author's culture and of a character's culture);
8.9. ... etc.
Recently, cascadiabound and me started to look at a particular usage of pronoun that; see L2 of cascadiabound's poem
This discussion could be continued here, and additional poems may provide extra illustrations.
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