Tuesday, 28 September 2010
Revivalist Rant
By D. Sugar
Why do literati
Scorn rhyme writing style?
Despite a cogent message
It’s viewed as juvenile.
Does poetry remind us
That once young and abstruse
We were fed and read info
Via Mother Goose?
Now Mary and her little lamb
HumptyDumpty, Jack & Jill
May have been simplistic
But for kids they filled the bill.
With that kiddie mode before us
We tend to label trite
Anything euphonious,
An elitist oversight.
The bottom line has got to be
A renaissance of rhyme
And with everything old, new again
Now could be the time!
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I agree! I love those two old times wasters, meter and rhyme.
So much of the "Modern" poetry that we were told to read in school sounded as if it had been written in crayon in a rubber room. You were compelled to read it over and over to almost begin to understand it and even then, no two people agreed on just what is was that the author was trying to say.
Call me simplistic but I would much rather read "Annabelle Lee" than "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock".
Now that I tell myself what poetry to read, I choose Poe or Tennyson over Thomas or Eliot...
Posted by: Nancy | Tuesday, 28 September 2010 at 06:16 AM
I enjoyed the meter, the rhyme and the cleverness of it. Thanks.
Posted by: Mary B Summerlin | Tuesday, 28 September 2010 at 01:18 PM