Reawakening the near lost art of rhyming poetry.
In modern times poetry has become almost solely dedicated to free verse. Writing a poem containing rhyme, however, and doing it well, and on a truly literate level, often is a deeper challenge. It is a loss to creative writing, that rhyme has been so discredited as an art form. To read modern poetry today, you couldn't help but be awash in the opinion that the only intellectual poetry, the only "good" poetry must avoid at all costs the rythym and rhyme that gave birth to the craft. Not in th
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In modern times poetry has become almost solely dedicated to free verse. Writing a poem containing rhyme, however, and doing it well, and on a truly literate level, often is a deeper challenge. It is a loss to creative writing, that rhyme has been so discredited as an art form. To read modern poetry today, you couldn't help but be awash in the opinion that the only intellectual poetry, the only "good" poetry must avoid at all costs the rythym and rhyme that gave birth to the craft. Not in the least to say that there is anything wrong, conversely, with free verse poetry. The art of free verse, done well, has captured all the beauty and bounty, the pain and the pathos and the good and bad of life itself. But in that theme , we do well to realize that there is good and bad in every art form. One does not represent talent and the other the lack thereof. The truth is that free verse poetry can be as bad, and as full of its own pitfalls, as the worst clumsy, forced rhyme, and in the reverse, a beautifully constructed and intelligent work of rhyming poetry, can resound as deeply as any free verse. Indeed, for some, the ability of rhyme to catch hold in the memory, allows the lyric and line of such poetry to sing and reside in the heart and mind, long after the detail of free verse has slipped away. Let us celebrate the reawakening of meaningful, literate rhyme!
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