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What is an Open Form/ Free Verse poem?
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OPEN FORM/FREE VERSE POEMS
Highlights
- No rhyme scheme
- No meter
- No specific line length
- No to telling
- No to conventional rules (unless you want to of course)
- Yes to all topics
- Yes to all types of moods
- Yes to caesuras & enjabments
- But yes to showing
- Yes to creating new effects
- Yes to breaking syntax
History of the Open Form/Free Verse
-Where: America
-When: 2nd decade of the 20th century (1920s)
-Who: Modernist poets
-Why: Modernist poets were getting bored of traditional
styles of poetry, so they decided to have a dialogue
with their poems by creating poems that speaks to old
style poetry, and in the process, created a new form of
poetry.
What is a Open Form/Free Verse Poem?
What is Enjabment?
"The breaking of a syntatic unit or a clause
over two or more lines without a punctuated pause."
In other words, bad grammar.
It is a poem that has no rhyme scheme and no meter. It focuses on powerful emotions, confusion of identity, expression, and view on various topics.
Classical Example
HERE
Enjabment
Samson Agonistes by John Milton
But patience is more oft the exercise
Of saints, the trial of their fortitude,
Making them each his own Deliver,
And Victor over all
That tyranny or fortune can inflict.
(Kinda)
HERE
A Hint
Contemporary Example
If you find yourself reflexively pausing
at places that don't sound
gramtically correct, then you have a open form/free verse poem.
Why?
Because when we see a line break
we instinctively pause. This is why
varying line lengths and enjabments are used:
to place more
emphasis on certain words by having them in the
beginning of a line, rather than other positions.
HERE
Feelings, Now by Katherine Foreman
Some kind of attraction that is neither
Animal, vegetable, nor mineral, a power not
Solar, fusion, or magnetic
And it is all in my head that
I could see into his
And find myself sitting there.