Adrienne Rich, "In Those Years"
Adrienne Rich, "In Those Years"
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Sounds like AI
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Well she died in 2012 in her old age, so no.
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Adding random
carriage returns to
prose doesn’t make it
a poem.-
Actually, it does
You can control these lines
With rhythm and meter
Bringing forth abstract conceptsDropping a carriage return
Is dropping a mind return
And slicing prose just a bit
Is the epitome of sharp witSometimes there’s rhymes
Sometimes there’s not
But to engage with poetry
Is to be open to anything-
To be honest I think both of you are right. It's definitely a tool that can be used very deliberately and to great effect, but it's also over-employed by poor writers in order to make their creation more "poem-like". I have seen plenty of examples of both kinds.
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