POETRY ANALYSIS: OPEN FORM

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OPEN FORM

INTRODUCTION

            The structure or pattern of organization that a poet chooses in writing a poem is referred to as being either open or closed. An open form does not have an established pattern to it, whether it be in line length, meter, rhyme, imagery, syntax, or stanzas. An open form poem allows the poet to write freely without worrying about trying to make the words fit a specific meter or rhyme scheme.

            It is allows the poet to place the words anywhere on the page to create a desired effect, such as setting lines off by themselves for emphasis or creating a picture with the placement of the words. It is indicate a fresh and individual arrangement for words in every poem. Many open form types exist, and good poets have often mastered several over the same period, even mixing them in the one poem.

            Poets who write in open forms usually insist on the form growing out of the writing process, i.e. The poems follow what the words and phrase suggest during the composition process, rather than being fitted into any pre-existing plan. Some do employ vestiges of traditional devices rhyme, meter, alliteration, but most regard them as hidrance to sincerity or creativity.

            In this paper we will learn about how to write an open form in poetry, what is visual poetry and how to read a poem in open form. Also we will learn and analyze the open form poem by Walt Whitman (1855).

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CONTAIN

            Poetry in open form used to be called free verse. The rhythms of poem by using a little white space or a lot, a slight identation or deep one, depending on whether a short pause or a long one is intended. In open form, you may read just as you would normally read a sentence in prose. Free verse is a form of poetry that refrains from consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern. When we write an open-form poem, try to be very conscious. Everything in the poem, every feature, every aspect, must have a reason for being there. Open form poetry usually has no meter to lend it rhythm. Poets writing in open forms argue that their approaches make for greater freedom to find the appropriate expression, and the words are not regimented into set meanings.

            Use experimental techniques that blast open the possibilities of words on the printed page. When you use the open form, you start to impose on your poem and yourself all sorts of rules. Think of open-form poetry as a way of thinking an especially intense awareness of every single aspect of the poem, from subject and tone to music and rhythm, from the physical shape of the poem to the length (in space and in time) of the lines, from the grammar you use to the parts of speech.

            Visual poetry is poetry or art in which the visual arrangement of text, images and symbols is important in conveying the intended effect of the work. It is sometimes referred to as concrete poetry, a term that predates visual poetry, and at one time was synonymous with it. The act of writing an experimental or visual poem is limited only by your imagination. You can spin or form your words, write them up, down, or circled around the page, draw pictures and play with the lettering to your heart’s content.

            A poem in stanzas can please us by its visual symmetry. And far from being merely decorative, the visual devices of a poem can be meaningful, too. Typographical devices such as capital letters and italics also can lay stress upon words.

POEM ANALYSIS

Song of Myself

By: Walt Whitman

Here and there with dimes on the eyes walking,

To feed the greed of the belly brains liberally spooning,

Tickets buying, taking, selling, but into the feast never once going,

Many sweating, ploughing, thrashing, and then the chaff for payment receiving,

A few idly owning, and they the wheat continually claiming.

Analysis:

This poem is trying to say how unique his feelings and thoughts are, Whitman emphasizes his ordinariness. The idea behind “Song of Myself” is that individual identity is temporary but transcedent. As I wrote before, in the introduction that it is indicate a fresh and individual arrangement for words every poems. And allows the poet to write freely without worrying about trying to make the words fit a specific or difficulty.

In this poem also indicate that open-form poem mix with every feature, every aspect and they must have a reason for being there. It’s simply in the line two and three, “Tickets buying, taking, selling, but into the feast never once going,

Many sweating, ploughing, thrashing, and then the chaff for payment receiving,”.

“Song of Myself” includes many modulations of tone as it moves towards and its climax. To work out the theme of endless renewal, between description and emotion. As I wrote before in contain, that poets writing in open forms argue that their approaches make greater freedom to find the appropriate expression into set meanings.

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CONCLUSION

An open form poem allows the poet to write freely without worrying about trying to make the words fit a specific meter or rhyme scheme. Usually open form is called by free verse poem. Free verse is a form of poetry that refrains from consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern. Poets writing in open form argue that their approaches make for greater freedom to find the appropriate expression, and the words are not regimented into set meanings.

The act of writing an experimental or visual poem is limited only by your imagination. You can spin or form your words, write them up, down, or circled around the page, draw pictures and play with the lettering to your heart’s content. The only rule of thumb, if it can even be called such it is to remember that visual poetry combines what you see and feel inside with the words you put on the page. Sometimes, your experience will be so graphic and visual that you will find the poem to be very sparse in word count, but loaded with eye-catching features.

By: Violita Sekar Arum Batari