Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Rhyming In Poetry
As I look back through my notes, I see that many of my poems have rhyming, especially the ones from the start of the semester. I thought that my poems that didn't rhyme had no rhythm and didn't sound good. I also thought that rhyming didn't "constrict" me, but it made me more creative. I felt that if I had to end the line with a certain word, I would be forced to come up with something creative for the rest of the line. I used to think that I wasn't creative at all and was not capable of coming up with interesting things to write about, which is why rhyming helped me expand on what I wanted to say. Now, I look at my rhyming poems and am able to keep the same idea that I had, and take out the rhyming. In the end, rhyming did help me come up with creative things to say, but now I can remove the rhyming and still have a great poem.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
I do agree with you. At first it was very hard for me to stop rhyming.I didn't think I could still keep my style of writing without the rhyming. Now that I have started to get out of the habit, I realized that some of my poems have potential to sound better without it.
ReplyDeleteI think that everyone, when they're first introduced to poetry, automatically thinks of rhyme. Perhaps a lot of it has to do with children's poetry. So at first, the concept of free verse and unmetered lines is a bit alien. I think that rhyme is still an important aspect of the poetry form, but it's interesting to note our notions of rhyme in poetry before we're exposed to a lot of it.
ReplyDelete