tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post3105577397278001921..comments2023-10-30T09:26:32.732+00:00Comments on Now's the time: waiting,contrast, fashionAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-60005599316730017622009-07-26T16:22:22.055+01:002009-07-26T16:22:22.055+01:00BB: In fact anything that supports fashion will pr...BB: In fact anything that supports fashion will probably soon be forgotten. <br /><br />Lucy:Thanks for the tip about Frances Stillman. Your experiments with ghazal were certainly inspiring.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-3971917849960338442009-07-26T09:44:23.469+01:002009-07-26T09:44:23.469+01:00Frances' Stillman's 'Poet's manual...Frances' Stillman's 'Poet's manual and rhyming dictionary' is to be recommended.<br /><br />I really think form is coming back, at least in the west; apparently in the Persian and Arabic speaking worlds, for example, which have been constrained by form until much more recently, they are luxuriating in the freedom from it - so the ghazal specialists say anyway. I think post-modernism says do what you like anyway. Milton had a point that rhyme can chime a little inanely after a bit.Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-81865327665302373232009-07-25T11:01:40.338+01:002009-07-25T11:01:40.338+01:00I much appreciate these despatches from the free v...I much appreciate these despatches from the free vs. rhyme/metre front. This latest brings the added revelation that poetry can be out-of-date and implies that anything which rhymes and/or scans is passé. I find this salutary but luckily I can ignore it. Despite the stuff I post I am not really competing for readers' attention but simply trying to learn what is and isn't possible. In a year or so I'll have reached the poet's equivalent of the 11-plus.<br /><br />My sestina aspirations have been ditched. Given the draconian rhyming rules I foresee great difficulties escaping the "obvious rhyme" tendency. I am trawling Brewer for new forms. The ballade seemed promising until I discovered it too contains rigorous retriction on the number of rhymes. Similarly with the rondeau, rondel and - especially - the triolet. I am beginning to understand why people have been tempted to ditch the rules.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.com