Are there any good contemporary English poets, or do they all just write prose and break the lines up to call it poetry?

Are there any good contemporary English poets, or do they all just write prose and break the lines up to call it poetry?

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Guess not

No, not really.

>or do they all just write prose and break the lines up to call it poetry
seems like poetry to me.

Poetry is defined by how it sounds, not how it's recorded

Jacob Polley

Poetry is the art of conveying a memorable image, prose in lines is a way of doing this.

Looks just stream of consciousness to me

>Poetry is the art of conveying a memorable image
No, if that were the case then it would include painting. Poetry has to do with rhythm

Conveying the image in words, you know what I meant. Rhythm only serves to make the words more memorable, which is partly why Shakespeare wrote many of his plays in Iambic Pentameter, to make them easier for the actors to memorize.

Rhythm, along with consonance, can used as an expressive tool if you know what you're doing. The greats, like Shakespeare in his plays, do this. Shakespeare would do things like using meter to communicate hesitation in the speaker, or the tension or ease of a conversation, etc. Most poetry these days frankly lacks that detail and depth. Most poetry these days simply lacks the subtlety and detail that makes it so rich. It's vainly depriving itself of some of its most powerful tools.

I understand, and I think we agree that rhythm can enhance poetry. But my point is that one can write poetry without rhythm.

I like Stephen Dunn's Different Hours.

>one can write poetry without rhythm.
That's called prose

Poetry is basically prose divided into lines and stanzas. If it doesn't have rhythm, rhyme, or anything cool or emotion-inducing then it's shit poetry and barely able to be called poetry

>Poetry is basically prose divided into lines and stanzas
Poetry predates that convention.

>wut da fak nigga why dize it not rhyme like it do in my RAP Gangasta muzik?

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I can only write poetry with iambs and trochees

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Yeah we're not talking about blank verse

retake first grade english

I don't think poetry is defined by anything

Then neither is prose? Lol

it just seems like the only difference between a prose poem, for example, and a particularly short short story is authorial intent (i.e., what they consider the work's genre to be).

Rupi Kuar is good

>abashed
>nonplussed
Real people don't talk like this.

She talks in an affected way because she's into English literature, it's tongue-in-cheek

If I write in meter and then call it prose it is? You're retarded.

I think prose is more clearly defined than poetry. but unless you can explain the difference between a prose poem and a short story without appealing to authorial intent, I don't understand what we disagree about.

It's called free verse

>Meeeeeeh I don't like how the artist's aesthetic sensibilities enable him to employ rhythm in order to bind mere words together to a coherent whole. It just makes to much sense for me to comprehend!!
Turbo brainlet take.

Luke Kennard
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