How does one judge free verse? Take these two for example.
>The tulips are too excitable, it is winter here.
>Look how white everything is, how quiet, how snowed-in.
>I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly
>As the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands.
>I am nobody; I have nothing to do with explosions.
>I have given my name and my day-clothes up to the nurses
>And my history to the anesthetist and my body to surgeons.
And
>In a world where natural tendency
>Antemptation is feared
>But hatred and ignorance
>Make us comfortable
>We that love and we that see
>Are crushed by responsibility.
The first one would almost be judged as the better, but how does one assess both of their aesthetic value?
>inb4 read more poetry
I've never read much free verse much apologies
How to handle free verse, a practical guide
Step 1. Put it in a garbage bin
Step 2. Light in on fire
Step 3. Read poetry that has meter
>>9150198
>How does one judge free verse?
Did you enjoy reading it and thinking about it?
There's your fucking standard of judgement. Jesus, does everyone need to be told how to feel about everything these days? You are the standard by which it is judged. The thoughts happening in your mind and the feelings in your body.
>>9150198
Such confessions reveal postmodernism's wholesale abnegation of the creative will of modernism. Further, they are neither as disingenuous nor, in fact, as polemical as they sound. For, in context, they represent, not simply a particular attitude to art making, but a thoroughgoing and, I believe, unparalleled interrogation of process itself. And that's not so surprising. For a sense of measure whose observations are participations, whose descriptions are enactments, is bound to be more attentive to process than product, to means than ends. The extraordinary formal variety of postmodern art is the direct result of a discovery of a whole range of processes that pre-empt conscious purpose and give open entry to the circumstances and materials of art making.
>>9150248
In case this isn't a meme, I get the crux of your message. Thanks.