Is Poetry sometimes forced ?

Question

Is Poetry sometimes forced ?

Answer 1

definitely. if you are under a deadline or are trying to push an idea further than it should go. also maybe if you are tying out a rhyme scheme that doesnt really fit the feel. trying to find a rhyme for a word or trying to fit into the rhythm is a common. i often write songs and poems and when i look back, some are really bad because i try to force them into a rhyme scheme.

Answer 2

yes, i'd know. i have been told that i have forced the rhyming at times.

Answer 3

Is is forced

Or is it pushed?

Does it flow

Or just not go?

The answer's here

For you to see

It CAN be forced,

But usually not very successfully.  ;-)

Answer 4

Of course. It can happen any time, most cases being inspiration without feeling, or feeling without inspiration, though it is occasionaly a simple lack of talent.

Answer 5

Oh you bet it is!!!

Sometimes I've had an idea shuffling around, wanted to write the poem...but...putting something on paper does NOT necessarily make a true poem.

What I got was a bunch of words....days later I reread what I'd written...THEN wrote a poem....

Good Morning!

Answer 6

yes, and it shows.

i write, so i sort of know

sometimes it flows

and sometimes it stops

sometimes its good

but most times it flops

but they dont do poetry

on top of the pops!

i have a knack, which why i write songs for the band... and sometimes it works straight out of the box as it were, others times its cobbled together, and edited to death.

Answer 7

On this site...OFTEN!

Answer 8

I would think some of them are, as a person who likes writing poetry, I just wait for an idea and then just write, I try NOT to think too hard about it, that way it comes across as fluid instead of forced. those that write for a living mus try and force inspiration, but they have all the time in the world to find it. so......

Answer 9

Yes. If you are writing a sonnet you have to do syllable counts, check the rhymes, etc. The same for all structured poems.

Answer 10

Yes, Mrs Farnsworth carried a gun. She was the great motivator of Intro to English Comp.