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Anonymous asked in Arts & HumanitiesPoetry · 1 decade ago

Question about questions for poetry section?

I've always been taught that poetry which contains too many questions as in:

How do you ...?

how do I ... ?

ETC.

are frowned upon. I have something I want to share, but it has at least 4 questions in it. I believe the questions make the poem because it's obviously the speaker questioning things.

Opinions?

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    I question the questions all the time.

    some tell me they don't like the questions but you have to realize that questions are a part of life and poetry is that too so question the questions and see how it goes...

    confusion is not my middle name--HA

  • Joe K
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    most of the time, questions in a poem are interpreted as affirmative statements to serve as ending(to the previous lines, or a preparation for the next line(s).

    Why don't you give it a shot! << ~~~~~~ e.g.

  • 1 decade ago

    oh i've written a poem that was completely questions and to me i thought it was very effective. if the questions you are going to ask make the poem then go with it! "questions frowned upon"? i find that ridiculous. for poetry there really are no rules. so if you think that the questions in your poem will work then totally stick with it.

  • 1 decade ago

    I am sure you can do this.

    As a conversation piece.

    As Buk said it should not be a stop and answer as you read through, but if you answer yourself as you write then people can either agree or disagree.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Depends on how you write it, really. A skilled writer can buck convention with very surprising results. I have a couple of poems that ask alot of questions, and I think they are quite nice.

    Go for it.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I tend to agree with the frowning.

    I don't want to be confused or forced to think in the middle of a poem.

    The end question thing works for me, sometimes.

    I just think we ask our own questions as we read, and if the Q's are already in the piece, then we are boxed in a bit.

  • Most everything about poetry was,

    or is "frowned upon" until

    someone wrote or writes something

    someone

    liked or likes.

    Do you get

    it?

  • 1 decade ago

    You Q, I don't know.

    Why don't you post it as is, and see what the readers think. Or could they by jumbled together at the end. Maybe not all fou, but...

    I don't know.

  • 1 decade ago

    Ask? Why wait? You do have something to say, don't you? So, why not?

    Source(s): Rules are at best guidelines. Go with what sounds right to you.
  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Lets see your write, and then figure it. :-)

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