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Blogs by Flying Fox AKA Ted L Glines
Poetry -- Natural vs. Schooled
1/9/2009 10:03:48 PM
This is a response to a query email where the writer was asking for advice on creative writing courses ...
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Anyone can take creative writing classes and learn how to write like someone else. I love Jack London (yes, he was a poet, too), Browning, Poe, Shakespeare, Plath, and so many other famous poets. Creative writing classes would teach me how to write like them. But you do not want to be a Jack London, Browning, Poe, Shakespeare, or Plath clone -- when you can be a perfectly awesome (your name here). Also, creative writing classes would teach you different poetry forms (sonnet, haiku, limerick, tanka, etc.) but you already know all the different forms; you have been reading them for years. Truthfully, every poem you write will create itself in its own correct form, structured or free, rhymed or not, and, hundreds of years from now, new writers may be copying a form which you have originated today. There is only one true test for a new poem: You must be able to recite the poem out loud, in your own natural voice, smoothly and without stumbling over troublesome words, and with emphatic images resounding naturally for the listener(s). Your poem which achieves this will be read easily, understood easily, and published easily.
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