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UNDERSTANDING STANZAS AND SAD POEMS

Sad Poems - Words, prose, sad quotes, Haiku Poems and thoughts.

One of the key requirements, one of the most secret tricks

of the trade, is to have a firm understanding of stanzas.

Poets like stanzas, like monkeys like bananas.

It is a fascinating phenomenon, that you can take almost

any kind of text- random magazine clippings, excerpts from

a telephone directory, etc, and they will look like poetry if

you simply arrange them in nice, neat little lines.

To punctuate or not to punctuate, to capitalize or not capitalize-

these are all minor details, for which the poet can merely

wing it, in an impromptu fashion, according to whim.

Occasionally, the poet will find a stranded stanza or two,

that are incomplete, or have no good place in which to fit.

These may be discarded, because a goal of poetry is to

express an idea vividly in as short of a space as possible.

In poetry, a key belief is to be brief.

However, sometimes you wind up with such a bonanza of

stanzas, that you just can't bear to part with them, much the

same as when you are cleaning your attic, and cannot bear

to part with old keepsakes that you have not really looked

at in the last 15 years. In that case, to hell, just throw

them all in. It doesn't matter, because much of the audience

is only skimming anyway, or even more embarrassingly,

much of the imagined audience isn't really there, or paying

any attention.

Now probably, you are thinking that the correct thing for

you do, based on this insight, is to arrange your poetry

into neat, short little lines. This is incorrect. The poetically

correct thing to do, based on this knowledge, would be

to take a screwdriver, chisel the carriage return key

right off of your keyboard, and put your poem into

a single, endlessly long line.

Even more important than arrangement into stanzas

is the fact that poets do not like to be confined with

rules, or told what to do.