Zitat des Tages über Freie Verse / Free Verse:
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.
The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.
But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.
If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.
I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.
Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history.
Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.