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| Why is poems/quotes not next to stories/creative writing?
Posted: 8/24/2009 6:04:29 PM | | Something like that. If you want to see how this forum site evolved, just view the pages at an archive site all the way back to the beginning. It kind of points to things falling into their places over time. | |
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| Why is poems/quotes not next to stories/creative writing?
Posted: 8/24/2009 10:22:07 PM | Poems, verse, doggerel are demarcated as literary apogees from prose. "Stories", historically, imply a narrative mode, whereas poems are dominated by a lyrical mode (which has nothing, intrinsically, to do with subjects of "love"). Poems are also set off by, amongst other qualities, compression, heightened crafting, organic metaphorical structuring, heightened emotion, aesthetic concentration, sonic pleasure and aptness in conjunction with its content. Even where a narrative strain exists in canonical poetry (Frost, Simpson, Shakespeare, Milton, i.e.), lyricism still dominates the narrative.
Stories, tales, yarns, accounts, anecdotes, typically belong to prose stylings where exposition, comprehensiveness, and "plainer" messaging are sought.
"Creative writing" is a catch-all for just about anything. | |
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| Why is poems/quotes not next to stories/creative writing?
Posted: 8/26/2009 12:10:27 AM |
Poems, verse, doggerel are demarcated as literary apogees from prose. "Stories", historically, imply a narrative mode, whereas poems are dominated by a lyrical mode (which has nothing, intrinsically, to do with subjects of "love"). Poems are also set off by, amongst other qualities, compression, heightened crafting, organic metaphorical structuring, heightened emotion, aesthetic concentration, sonic pleasure and aptness in conjunction with its content. Even where a narrative strain exists in canonical poetry (Frost, Simpson, Shakespeare, Milton, i.e.), lyricism still dominates the narrative.
Stories, tales, yarns, accounts, anecdotes, typically belong to prose stylings where exposition, comprehensiveness, and "plainer" messaging are sought.
"Creative writing" is a catch-all for just about anything.
not only could i have not said this so succinctly, i could not have said it half as well.
you still rock, rory, dear!! 
on pof i met a man named rory
over time, i learned his story
outclassed, from the very start
i knew i'd met a man with heart
who knew the true way to write
yet never made my attempts seem trite
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