As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and the shape and the sound.
The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.
Poetry is a sort of homecoming.
Assonance is not the enemy of rhyme. It helps us to respect rhyme, which has been spoiled by mechanical use.
I mean, when it's time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine.
Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.
When poetry separates from song, then the words have to carry all the rhythm themselves; they have to do all the work. They can't rely on the singing voice.
The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.
The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships.
The Vietnam War and the Iraq war, in different ways, both made me feel like I could not not address them. I'm very doubtful about the usefulness of poetry to do that.