Choosing each word, each phrase is like considering a chess move.
This is especially true when considering form.
I came up with this simile after thinking about the thought process I went through coming up with my acrostic sonnet. Not that the acrostic is very noticeable, but just having that as part of the form changed the way I constructed the poem. I began to see portions of the line the way I imagine chess players envision files.
(F was a state chess champion. Have I ever mentioned that? I'm sure that association informs my metaphor, too.)
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Date: 2003-12-23 04:10 am (UTC)Poetry is indeed like chess;
but chess is poetry.
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Date: 2003-12-23 06:25 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-23 06:49 am (UTC)This is especially true when considering form.
I came up with this simile after thinking about the thought process I went through coming up with my acrostic sonnet. Not that the acrostic is very noticeable, but just having that as part of the form changed the way I constructed the poem. I began to see portions of the line the way I imagine chess players envision files.
(F was a state chess champion. Have I ever mentioned that? I'm sure that association informs my metaphor, too.)
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Date: 2004-01-02 12:33 pm (UTC)