I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.
Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work.
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 idea is that the object has a language unto itself.
Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.
Poetry seems to be the only weapon able to beat language, using language's own means.
I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.
The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.
Assonance is not the enemy of rhyme. It helps us to respect rhyme, which has been spoiled by mechanical use.