Cat Fitzpatrick
I have written over 10,000 lines of iambic pentameter AMA
Typesetter & Editrix @littlepuss.net // Author of The Call-Out: A Novel in Rhyme
- The dog is inescapable, yes. but the fox? The fox is very uncatchable
- My Dad's favorite movies were The Card (1952) Topper (1937) Topkapi (1964) The Italian Job (1969) Captain Blood (1935) Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)
- My spicy take on "poet voice" is that it's just the audible equivalent to the visual signifier of keeping line breaks in poetry that doesn't have metrical lines any more
- If you complain about song-song intonation and exaggerated pauses in readings of prose poems but are fine with arbitrary line breaks in prose poems in print you are INCONSISTENT
- The question, if you reasonably prefer not to learn meter, is not "why do we do poet voice?" still less "how can we avoid it?" it is "how can poet voice be WEAPONISED?"
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View full threadIf you do poet voice hard enough my guess is you will probably invent doggrel which, as Byron and Marvell and Skelton will tell you, is actually one of the noblest forms verse can take
- WEAPONISATION
- George Eliot is such a maniac actually
- Like this is not just normal ambient Victorian weirdness this is specific and *bananas*
- The thing I will say about social media is yes it is evil and swallows my time but before social media I used to spend so much time reading newspapers and I'm not at all sure you lot aren't still a better deal than Simon Jenkins and Matthew Paris
