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The meter is not apparent.

Free verse, I see
Now, what is this game you have written about?

soupoftomato wrote:

Is Creative Writing a class you're taking

Because generally in fiction, you are allowed to break grammatical rules if the effect of something takes precedence over correctness

And you have much more than a couple of hour's for it

And you can metaphorically go on grand adventures

Eh? Creative Writing controlled assessments have 2 hour limits, a set of rules you must follow for each and no time or enough freedom to go into a deep adventure or into real creativity. You just function like a word machine to produce "clever responses" by spitting out lines of metaphors and similes instead of creating pieces for a real, personal reason. And generally in tests, you'd get marked down for grammatical errors unless it's in a person speech.

Borrego6165 wrote:

soupoftomato wrote:

Is Creative Writing a class you're taking

Because generally in fiction, you are allowed to break grammatical rules if the effect of something takes precedence over correctness

And you have much more than a couple of hour's for it

And you can metaphorically go on grand adventures

Eh? Creative Writing controlled assessments have 2 hour limits, a set of rules you must follow for each and no time or enough freedom to go into a deep adventure or into real creativity. You just function like a word machine to produce "clever responses" by spitting out lines of metaphors and similes instead of creating pieces for a real, personal reason. And generally in tests, you'd get marked down for grammatical errors unless it's in a person speech.

"Is Creative Writing a class you're taking"

Aidan wrote:

dontbombiraq wrote:

The meter is not apparent.

Free verse?

Don't get me wrong, I love free verse, but my idea of free verse is this. This is too much like a metered poem or prose.

Creative writing tests are just like, to see if you can do the sorts of the things they've taught you. If you feel it's that restrictive then you're always free to do it on your own time
as you have just done

dontbombiraq wrote:

luiysia wrote:

dontbombiraq wrote:

Don't get me wrong, I love free verse, but my idea of free verse is this. This is too much like a metered poem or prose.

the point of free verse is that you can just write it however you want...

no

Wikipedia wrote:

(in support, since I figured Wikipedia was the natural way to resolve this)\
Poets have explained that free verse, despite its freedom, is not free. Free verse displays some elements of form. Most free verse, for example, self-evidently continues to observe a convention of the poetic line in some sense, at least in written representations, though retaining a potential degree of linkage, however nebulous, with more traditional forms. Donald Hall goes as far as to say that "the form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau,"[2] and T. S. Eliot wrote, "No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job.".[3] Kenneth Allott the poet/critic said the adoption by some poets of vers libre arose from 'mere desire for novelty, the imitation of Whitman, the study of Jacobean dramatic blank verse, and the awareness of what French poets had already done to the Alexandrine in France'.[4].The American critic John Livingston Lowes in 1916 observed 'Free verse may be written as very beautiful prose; prose may be written as very beautiful free verse. Which is which ?' [5]
Some poets have considered free verse restrictive in its own way. In 1922 Robert Bridges voiced his reservations in the essay 'Humdrum and Harum-Scarum.' Robert Frost later remarked that writing free verse was like "playing tennis without a net." William Carlos Williams said "being an art form, verse cannot be free in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principles".[6] Yvor Winters, the poet/critic said 'the free verse that is really verse, the best that is, of W.C.Williams, H. D., Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, and Ezra Pound is the antithesis of free '[7]

I wouldn't say this so much disqualifies the above as free-verse though. It claims that free-verse still generally uses "at least in written representations, though retaining a potential degree of linkage, however nebulous, with more traditional forms." Both your link and this one hold true to that.

dontbombiraq wrote:

luiysia wrote:

dontbombiraq wrote:

Don't get me wrong, I love free verse, but my idea of free verse is this. This is too much like a metered poem or prose.

the point of free verse is that you can just write it however you want...

no

Okay, the point of free verse is that it's poetry without a defined rhyme scheme or meter.

do you just want people to not discuss it or something
im sure nobody minds

bump

veggieman001 wrote:

Borrego6165 wrote:

jukyter wrote:

do you just want people to not discuss it or something
im sure nobody minds

I want people to discus it, but people are accusing the poem of being "wrong" even though there is no right or wrong way to view the poem.

People have different views about art, and they're expressing theirs on this. Would it not be unbalanced if you only accepted positive views.

Now, the people with negative views could give actual feedback instead of just saying you're classifying it wrong with little explanation of how or why.

Since when do I only accept positive views>