No worries thinking more to write something drippingly awful first, an ice breaker. the form seems to have evolved from country tune circa... drat have to look that up. Very old.
As with most thing literature and poem each reemergence is more hallowed in method and strict in form. In another 100 years a Vilanelle will likely become impossible to write because word selection will become limited to those existing deemed worthy(something like that).
So my suggestion: use pun, satire, poor rhyme.... make a few real stinkers. It allows you to practice the form knowing you're going to totally destroy them late. An do dispose of them properly. You wouldn't want to become poet laureate 20 years from now and have a crumple bit of dreck discovered stuck to to the portalet at the city dump.
Sadly when you do get a few done and work on the serious ones they will still look like dreck, but keep those. It sometimes takes 100 years before a poem gathers it's own grace and it's writer is the least likely to see that at it's birth.
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18/7/08 16:39 (UTC)thinking more to write something drippingly awful first, an ice breaker. the form seems to have evolved from country tune circa... drat have to look that up. Very old.
As with most thing literature and poem each reemergence is more hallowed in method and strict in form. In another 100 years a Vilanelle will likely become impossible to write because word selection will become limited to those existing deemed worthy(something like that).
So my suggestion: use pun, satire, poor rhyme.... make a few real stinkers. It allows you to practice the form knowing you're going to totally destroy them late. An do dispose of them properly. You wouldn't want to become poet laureate 20 years from now and have a crumple bit of dreck discovered stuck to to the portalet at the city dump.
Sadly when you do get a few done and work on the serious ones they will still look like dreck, but keep those. It sometimes takes 100 years before a poem gathers it's own grace and it's writer is the least likely to see that at it's birth.