I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As a writer given to the old formalities of rhyme and meter, I sometimes feel endangered these days.
To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.
My father would tell me if I wasn't writing in meter verse, it wasn't poetry.
On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.
Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.
Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.
People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.
I believe that poetry should communicate.
Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.
The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.