![]() Fragments are everywhere - in even some of the greatest works. In punctuated verse one has to realize that nothing has to be a complete sentence in poetry. After all meaningless is meaningless even in the emotional states of poetry. So presentation becomes important in line breaks, stanza breaks, and Caesuras, mid-line breaks to help the poem get its message across to the readers.ĭoes the poem emote and/ or evoke its emotion well enough to the reader, becomes very important to its justification in existence. It might be harder to write without some punctuation because of this fact. Also certain types of wordings can cause real confusion and misunderstanding without punctuation. When not using punctuation long caesuras and line breaks become vital to the presentation to create the natural pauses in language.ĬAPs are questionable in un-punctuated verse. Punctuation or not? Use it or don't use it in a poem, but be consistent throughout the poem. The little marks on the page are not 'natural" to poetry at all. The little marks on the page-which written prose NEEDS-were imposed on poetry for convenience after poetry 'was written down. My overall point here is that rhythm and rhyme and pauses and inflections ARE the 'natural' forms of P in poetry. P is visual (unless you're Victor Borge, a comedian who does a skit in which he su pplies AUDITORY signals for all the standard P marks very funny). From the beginning, poetry was meant to be spoken, recited, sung, and most of the early poetic 'devices' were probably mnemonic strategies to help deal with what might have been a LOT of materialassist memory-when your culture is pre-calligraphic, songs, stories, poems are all you have to provide tribal continuity. Poetry is much, much older than written prose and waaaaaaay back was part of song, and oral story, part of the repertoire of wandering minstrels and troubadours. I would question the historical veracity of that statement. Quick point-someone has already made the point that punctuation (P) serves much the same purpose in poetry as in prose. ![]() I'm in a rush right now, but wanted to get in a 'starter post'. A third group of poets place punctuation arbitrarily, without realizing that punctuation actually aid the readers’ interpretation and also determines his/her breathe pauses. Interestingly, many poets use punctuation marks without knowing why they used them others just write their verses without using any marks at all, not deliberately, just because they do not know how and where to use them. signals when and where to breathe (very important).aids in coherence and the presentation of meaning. ![]() In order words, punctuation assists in organizing your words into discernible verses: Punctuation in poetry is similar to punctuation in prose and serves almost the same purpose as bar lines in music without which the words and notes won’t flow all together. In this lecture, our main concern in PUNCTUATION. But it must be also noted that following poetry rules gives our poems structure and clarity – common ground rules that help the poet communicate clearly and effectively to the reader. There is nothing wrong in that, especially with poets whose verses are rich in metaphors, imagery and all other ingredients of poetry. These days however, new ‘poets’ simply gather expressions, break them into verses and group them into stanzas (or just flow) – then you have a poem.
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