What's your favorite Form and what Form/format do you find most

  • Robert Gardiner
    18 years ago

    What is your favorite Form/Format to write in, partake of and what Form/Format do you find difficult, hard???

    Is there a Form, style of poetry, that you like to write in over and above all the other? When it comes to the specific types, styles, formats of poetry is there one you really fancy. If asked to write a poem in and of a specific structure of your choosing, which poetic structure (Form) would you choose? And to the other end of the spectrum which form would you try and avoid, because it's just too difficult, hard?

    What's your favorite Form and what Form do you find most difficult???

    For me, I think my favorite form might be sonnet, for I do enjoy writing them and that's the form I've written in most, although l like exploring many of the forms and enjoy writing form poetry, but as of where I am now sonnets are my top form. And as to what form is most difficult, I can't say. There a many challenging form some of which I'm not familiar with, but as I come to see it for myself, it's more a matter of whether I can wrap myself mentally around a particular form, whether I can see throwing myself into that form and actually writing well, up to my standards in it, than how difficult, hard, challenging it is.

  • Drew Gold
    18 years ago

    I like forms that take on a certain shape. Lately I've been reading a lot of Dickinson; very block-like structures and indenting. lately that's came up in my writing and i like the effect. like rictameters and those kind of poems because of the overall shape, but I do admire the skill required in sonnets. That's the most difficult thing for me, perfect meter.

  • Robert Gardiner
    18 years ago

    I like partaking of forms that are Structured, that use Repetition, Rhyme, Meter and such, also that are Stanzaic (use stanzas). I like writing in forms that have a format to them, that have stricter requirements. I like to challenge myself, as such, to see if I can not only meet the strict form requirements, but also, write well (a good poem) in that strict format. Also, I like forms like these, because such things as Rhythm, Rhyme, Repetition, and Meter have long been staples of poetry and at the base and part of the building blocks of the genre, and I want to be as proficient as I can in those essential aspects. For, the better I am at some of poetry's basics, enssential building blocks, the better I am, or will be, at poetry!!!

  • RainbowSlider
    18 years ago

    I was in a twenty lines with four stanza rut for a while. I am trying with other types, now.