I'm working on a poetry project, and one of the questions is "How does the form of this poem lend itself to the meaning?". I dont know what the "form of the poem" means. or is. v.v All of the poems i used are just regular poems...not concrete poems or anything like that...so i could use some help. Thanks :)
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There are many forms. We would have to see the poem to define its form.
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You say you're writing about "just regular poems." You need to define that a bit more. Are they free verse, using no rhyme or meter? Are they blank verse, using meter but not rhyme? Are they sonnets, with 14 lines of iambic pentameter and a specific rhyme scheme? Are they villanelles, with 19 lines and a pattern of repeated lines? When you answer questions like those, you'll be be describing the form (or forms) of your poems.
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Some poems are free verse, some poems are riming quatrains, some poems are sonnets, some poets are haikus.
When you see the shape a poem takes on the page, you get some clues about what kind of a poem it is going to be.
The shape a poem takes on the page is its form.
Here is a piece by Charles Olson, and one by Emily Dickinson. Even without reading them you have some idea of what sort of poem each is going to be.
You can see the form before you read the poem.
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What is the "form" of a poem?
I'm working on a poetry project, and one of the questions is "How does the form of this poem lend itself to the meaning?". I dont know what the "form of the poem" means. or is. v.v All of the poems i used are just regular poems...not concrete poems or anything like...