Style vs substance

anonamouse

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What's it going to be then, eh?

There was me, that is anonoalex and my three poe-droogs govoreeting about the latest forms and style vs substance. The slovos dropping from my rot like Bog And All His Holy Angels warbling, as I recited my lastest done in the height of form fashion.

onomatopoeic clam on the half-sonnet

THUMP duh duh THUMPduh THUMPduh THUMPduh THUMP
duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP da RUMP
duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP da RUMP
duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP
duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP
duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP da RUMP
duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP da RUMP
duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP

THUMP duh duh THUMPduh THUMPduh THUMPduh THUMP
duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP
duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP
duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP
duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP
duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP

My rassoodock jumping between horrorshow ultra-ultra-violence and the in and out of the rhythms the grand and glorious moment interrupted by Dim "I don't pony it much"
O Dim, dost that iambic pentameter not remind you of booted nogas kicking sharries or the old in-and-out (much the same really). Dost thou want to go back to the starry blank verse of pee and em days. Oh bloody yarbels, if you have use latest style doth not devotchkas spread like jammiwam from a jar? Dim, being well, dim, drooling spit asked "should I do haiku", missing the point of style over substance.

But you pony, my fellow droogies.

So what's it going to be then, eh?

Your humble and lovable narrator
anonoalex
 
Good is good. Free verse is a form of sorts. A poem that is well written can follow form or not, but substance is everything. I can write a piece of crap in free verse or form and I'm pretty sure I can write a good poem either way, too. Content, content, content. :)
 
Angeline said:
although the content itself should have intent...

:kiss:
I intend to be content in whatever style I choose to present the content burning with my intent. (prose rhyme avec caffiene)
 
Competent form poetry can be taught and learnt like a math equation or a piece of written music and can prove to be a refuge for a poet. Competent free verse has to be invented and reinvented and challenges the creativity of a would be poet.

In Elizabethan England, a gentleman would not be classed as educated without competence in writing verse according to convention. I remember reading an article in The Sunday Times some years ago where an English school teacher was so competent at teaching her pupils form poetry, that many of her 13 and 14 year old pupils won poetry competitions and prizes over the years. However, none were able to take the step and repeat their success outside tradition and convention of form.

I suppose it depends where your ambitions lay, to take a craft and try to elevate it into art or whether you are more interested in creativity and to hell with such notions as art and what you write is what you write and if you attract an audience then great.

I prefer to indulge my creativity and I don't care if it is called poetry or not. That being said, like all creativity, you need to be aware of tradition and convention and read widely. A good musician who improvises still needs to master their instrument.
 
anonamouse said:
What's it going to be then, eh?

There was me, that is anonoalex and my three poe-droogs govoreeting about the latest forms and style vs substance. The slovos dropping from my rot like Bog And All His Holy Angels warbling, as I recited my lastest done in the height of form fashion.

onomatopoeic clam on the half-sonnet

THUMP duh duh THUMPduh THUMPduh THUMPduh THUMP
duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP da RUMP
duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP da RUMP
duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP
duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP
duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP da RUMP
duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP da RUMP
duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP

THUMP duh duh THUMPduh THUMPduh THUMPduh THUMP
duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP
duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP
duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP
duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP
duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP duh THUMP

My rassoodock jumping between horrorshow ultra-ultra-violence and the in and out of the rhythms the grand and glorious moment interrupted by Dim "I don't pony it much"
O Dim, dost that iambic pentameter not remind you of booted nogas kicking sharries or the old in-and-out (much the same really). Dost thou want to go back to the starry blank verse of pee and em days. Oh bloody yarbels, if you have use latest style doth not devotchkas spread like jammiwam from a jar? Dim, being well, dim, drooling spit asked "should I do haiku", missing the point of style over substance.

But you pony, my fellow droogies.

So what's it going to be then, eh?

Your humble and lovable narrator
anonoalex
Sorry, no time for the old in-out; I'm just here to read a poem.

:D

-Ludwig
 
champagne1982 said:
I intend to be content in whatever style I choose to present the content burning with my intent. (prose rhyme avec caffiene)

:rose: :rose: :rose:
I'm content
 
champagne1982 said:
I intend to be content in whatever style I choose to present the content burning with my intent. (prose rhyme avec caffiene)

Does Neo know about this? Isn't he in charge of caffeine here? :D
 
I say again......Hah!!!

I have no clue why, I just wanted to say it....

Oh yeah, form or not, rhyme or not, all my poetry is shit and I like it....so there!!!

:D
 
The_Fool said:
I say again......Hah!!!

I have no clue why, I just wanted to say it....

Oh yeah, form or not, rhyme or not, all my poetry is shit and I like it....so there!!!

:D

lmao! I like your style! ;)
 
anonamouse said:
THUMP duh duh THUMPduh THUMPduh THUMPduh THUMP
Boom boom zag, raggadadaggada WHOMP
ta-taa, ra-taa, fa-taa. Ka zzz BRRREP!
Zaka-pink ka-DAK ka-DAK
krrr krrr krrr krrr krrr...







What?
 
Liar said:
Boom boom zag, raggadadaggada WHOMP
ta-taa, ra-taa, fa-taa. Ka zzz BRRREP!
Zaka-pink ka-DAK ka-DAK
krrr krrr krrr krrr krrr...







What?
splishy SPLISHY splish SPLASH
flip PLOP smoosh SQUISH pling PLING pling
FLOOM



Silly idn't it?
 
Liar said:
Boom boom zag, raggadadaggada WHOMP
ta-taa, ra-taa, fa-taa. Ka zzz BRRREP!
Zaka-pink ka-DAK ka-DAK
krrr krrr krrr krrr krrr...







What?

That's beautiful Liar! LOL :D
 
Liar said:
Boom boom zag, raggadadaggada WHOMP
ta-taa, ra-taa, fa-taa. Ka zzz BRRREP!
Zaka-pink ka-DAK ka-DAK
krrr krrr krrr krrr krrr...







What?
What! Is right?
Where is the iambic pentameter?
champagne1982 got it right

First line was a varient to keep it from getting too boring
 
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