six
@six
She air on my drop till i circ us in the token
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six
@six
and people say poetry is dead.
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arseniy
@arseniy.eth
imo poetry “forked” at some point when people started making stuff without much meter and rhyme. Music, especially rap, always was also poetry but most people today think poetry is journal entries with line breaks lol
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trpplffct
@trpplffct
Ah, but who says that isn't poetry? And who says poetry is only poetry when written with meter and rhyme? *cough haiku *cough
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arseniy
@arseniy.eth
I would encourage you to look more closely at the history of haiku, especially how different scholars and poets have attempted to “import” it into English. To say that it doesn’t have meter is inaccurate, and there have been poets, even Japanese poets, who encouraged use of rhyme/alliteration in English haiku because the language is rich with opportunities to do so. Japanese is a very different language with its own sonic and metrical qualities, and so naively using the 5-7-5 syllabic structure and saying “that’s the only requirement for haiku” is inaccurate.
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trpplffct
@trpplffct
Hahaha, this is exactly why I created my own form. My form, my rules. Point is, that poetry is not just meter and rhyme, and the way haiku are created and enjoyed nowadays, is just one example. I never said that a 5-7-5 syllabic form is the only requirement for haiku, nor that they don't have meter, nor rhyme. Just pointing out that it is not necessary. I have no need for a poetry history lesson. And I also think poetry is a living thing. It's not bound by some set of rules created in the past. These are guidelines for creating art of the future.
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