Hello Lovelies, and welcome back to the blog. Today is the last day that we're talking about the second Pillar of Genre. Let’s talk about Poetry. How do you define what Poetry even is? Would you say that it has a meter or cadence? That it has to rhyme and have multiple verses? That it has to take a specific form? All of those things may be aspects of poetry, and yet poems exist that could also be said to have none of those qualities. Today we are going to go into Lyric Poetry, so let’s talk about it.
Introduction to the Poetry Genre
Hello Lovelies, and welcome back to the blog. Today, and for the next few weeks, we're talking about the second Pillar of Genre. Let’s talk about Poetry. How do you define what Poetry even is? Would you say that it has a meter or cadence? That it has to rhyme and have multiple verses? That it has to take a specific form? All of those things may be aspects of poetry, and yet poems exist that could also be said to have none of those qualities.