The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #59753   Message #956137
Posted By: Kim C
20-May-03 - 09:40 AM
Thread Name: BS: What Constitutes Good Writing?
Subject: RE: BS: What Constitutes Good Writing?
What I want to know is, what constitutes good poetry? How does someone get to be a "poet"? How is modern, non-rhyming poetry different from prose, aside from the fact that it's written in lines instead of paragraphs? Why would I, a songwriter, be in such a quandary about poetry, when songwriting is a cousin to it? (some people may say it's the same, and in some ways it is, but in my mind it's different)