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This thread is for comments about Making Monsters , by Tim Pratt.
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Anonymous
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That was a wonderful poem.
--Simon Owens
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Anonymous
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Rather like the last Tim Pratt poem, this seems just to be a piece of prose split randomly into different verses. I always thought there should be more to poetry than that.
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chris corbett
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more to poetry than great imagery, lyricism and storytelling? if there's more, I'd love to see it... poetry encompasses more than iambic pentameter and rhyming versus... some of my favorite poems are written with loose, unstructured prose... nice work tim!
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Tim Pratt
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Anonymous,
Certainly it's free verse, but if you read it closely I'm sure you'll realize there's a great deal of traditional poetic stuff going on there, too, particularly in terms of alliteration, carefully chosen repeating vowel and consonant sounds, internal rhymes, etc. I also pay particular attention to line breaks, in terms of enjambment and opportunities to break lines in such a way that the reader is pulled along into the next line, and presented with some change or revelation. I can't objectively speak to the quality of my own poem, but I can assure you that my approach is quite different from, as you say, writing prose and "randomly" splitting it into verses.
Of course, if you categorically prefer formal verse over free verse, that's a perfectly acceptable matter of opinion.
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Sandy Lindow
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Great poem, Tim. You have become a powerful voice for the subtle horrors that rumble beneath the surface of everyday life.You hold the mythic in your keyboard.
Sandy
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HaroldandMardel
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Writing in 1994 in "The Western Canon" Harold Bloom said: "Nothing in the second half of the nineteenth century or in our now almost completed century matches Whitman's work in direct power and sublimity, except perhaps for Dickinson." He goes on to say: "Whitman's originality has less to do with his supposedly free verse than it does with his mythological inventiveness and mastery of figurative language." We're not saying Tim is a descendant of Walt Whitman, though perhaps he is, but that meter is only one resource the poet may wish to use. Like metaphor and irony, like imagery, meter is simply one of many tools the poet can bring to bear.
Harold and Mardel
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Cathy Buburuz
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I loved Tim Pratt's poem Making Monsters because of the unique ideas he presented. It's obvious he's a great storyteller as well as a poet. Very entertaining...a joy to read.
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