Frank Antonson
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- Dec 7, 2009
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- English Teacher
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- English
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- United States
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This may be just a little premature, but I am going to have my students undertake to write a long, narrative poem in verse.
I suspect that metered poetry is as effective now as it ever was, so WHY there has been such a move away from it over the last 150 years -- say, since Tennyson?
Incidentally, I do not consider "free verse" to be verse at all.
I suspect that metered poetry is as effective now as it ever was, so WHY there has been such a move away from it over the last 150 years -- say, since Tennyson?
Incidentally, I do not consider "free verse" to be verse at all.