Well...ok, maybe I do know when I see it, but only because of a rather subjective and nebulous feeling : "oh! This is a poem". I wouldn't be able to tell you objectively why I feel that this is the case....
Val Vallis taught literature at Qld Uni when I was there and taught us that a poem is where the lines don't reach to the end of the page. He was a poet so he would know!
Such a modernist ;)
ReplyDeleteWhat is the diff'rence
ReplyDelete'tween a poem and a sentence
haikus can be both
What is the difference?
ReplyDeleteUsually the only way I know is that there's the word "poem" somewhere on the page, or on the cover of the book that contains the page.
Well...ok, maybe I do know when I see it, but only because of a rather subjective and nebulous feeling : "oh! This is a poem". I wouldn't be able to tell you objectively why I feel that this is the case....
ReplyDeleteVal Vallis taught literature at Qld Uni when I was there and taught us that a poem is where the lines don't reach to the end of the page. He was a poet so he would know!
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