I love narrative poems, but they’re hard to write. Anyone who thinks narrative poetry is easy to write has obviously never tried to write one. The reasons I think narrative poems are difficult are many, but in a nutshell:
The struggle is in maintaining a balance between the narrative and the poetics
Too much narrative and the [...]
I’m splitting this discussion of poetics into three blog posts. I like to make good on my promises so here’s the first part of my discussion on the future of the epic. I’ll start with its past.
For the purpose of this discussion I’m breaking poetic history down into three periods: The pre-literate, the literate, and [...]
Yesterday I sicked my inner sicko (psycho?) on the appositives to see if I could get away with murder. Today I’m going to prosecute myself.
Seriously, if I were to answer yesterday’s post with a rebuttal, I’d say there are three types of poetry where appositives are a positive. They are:
Prose poetry
Narrative verse
Language poetry
Differences Between Prose [...]