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Free Verse

Free Verse. “No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job”. First of all, free verse is just that- verse that is free of structured and consistent meter and rhyme. We first started seeing it with the Whitman poem that we read the other day.

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Free Verse

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  1. Free Verse “No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job”

  2. First of all, free verse is just that- verse that is free of structured and consistent meter and rhyme. • We first started seeing it with the Whitman poem that we read the other day. • What was your reaction to that? Did you like it more or less? Why? We are just getting into authors who use free verse instead of metered verse. What’s the difference?

  3. What do you think about the T.S. Eliot Quote? “No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job” Or…. "the ghost of some simple metre should lurk behind the arras in even the 'freest' verse; to advance menacingly as we doze, and withdraw as we rouse. Or, freedom is only truly freedom when it appears against the background of an artificial limitation."

  4. But…Free Verse still needs to be poetic, So it is still difficult to write, and different than prose in that it… Here’s what Robert Frost says (not a fan of the free verse) Has lines (anything going all the way to both ends of the page is usually considered prose) Has a poetic and artistic phrasing that is free of the strict rules of meter and syllabic counting. Writing free verse is like “playing tennis without a net”

  5. Compare! Which do you like better? Free, or metered poetry?

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