DDCPoetry

Original poem reprinted online here: "Because You Asked About the Line Between Prose and Poetry" by Howard Nemerov Originally read: March 10, 2013 More information about the Poet:  Howard Nemerov Six Lines -- a quatrain and a couplet.  On top of that there's an alternating rhyme scheme, and the poem is somewhat iambic pentameter.  I'm pointing this out this time because the main separating line between prose and poetry (before the advent of free verse) was that poetry was in form and prose was not.  And I think that's it...no, really. And this poem does address the differences in an ars poetica imagistic way.  The first line sets up a blur between words like "feeding" and "freezing."  These gerands have homophonic and visual similarities which parallels the debate between poetry and prose -- similar but something is different. In the second line, there's the introduction of the you which watches the drizzle into snow -- again similar visual...

Original poem reprinted online here:  "Meditation XVII" by John Donne Originally read: March 9, 2013 More information about the Poet:  John Donne So I just want to point out that I found this on Poem Hunter first.  Then after doing some research that Poem Hunter didn't post a poem but a prose piece -- a meditation of John Donne.  I'm not much of a John Donne scholar so please forgive me for not knowing (and those who might find this useful for you exam/question/essay, heed this as a big warning to go to the other sites that have better analysis). Then after doing some research about this meditation, then reading it -- there's a lot of consistency with "Holy Sonnet VII" and "No Man is an Island" (well duh the phrases are in here), but furthermore, this is shows a more linkable connection between both poems -- meaning, style, theme, etc. And of course the meditation is about death, the soul, and religion then.  I'm not going to go over the en...

Original poem reprinted online here:  "Soldierization" by Jane Satterfield Originally read: January 13, 2013 (hole punched the date :-/ ) More information about the Poet:  Jane Satterfield What's the difference between prose and poetry?  Hell that I know?  This is just a guess though. The difference between Prose and Poetry is expectation.  The automatic response when reading something in prose is information -- whether it be an article detailing something, or a finding out the plot of a story -- prose has that long tradition of a useful tool for information. Can you imagine a poem constricted to information like an article?  Meh, maybe, just not there yet.  Poetry plays more on a language level (or at least has more leeway).  And although sound accounts for some the distinction, this poem distinct itself through does other poetic techniques. So I paused after writing the last sentence.  I wanted to be specific about the poetry techniques th...

Original poem reprinted online here: "Zombie Preparedness Plan" by Mary Jo Firth Gillett Originally read: January 8, 2013 More information about the Poet:  Mary Jo Firth Gillett So there's always been the debate about poetry vs. prose.  The only thing I could add to that discussion is that I'd rather read this poem as a flash fiction piece than a poem.  I'm writing that it's a bad thing; rather, that there's a lot of information I would want to know about the speaker and the daughter and the poem doesn't quite encapsulate that for me. And past me agrees in the most harshest of ways, "Nothing is really added with these line breaks or description, very much like an article or a story. Then I thought to myself (after rereading this) I wondered why.  Over the past two months I noted certain poetry literary techniques like line breaks creating distortion in tone or emotion, rhyme scheme tying in themes, how images and descriptions overtake any sense of...