Floodlights and Goalposts

An online commonplace book

Rhyme is bankrupt.

Frost. I don’t know why I even bothered submitting anything, given how he writes. I mean he’s still using rhyme.

Yeah, so?

Rhyme is bullshit. Rhyme says that everything works out in the end. All harmony and order. When I see rhyme in a poem, I know I’m being lied to. Go ahead, laugh! It’s true–rhyme’s a completely bankrupt device. It’s just wishful thinking. Nostalgia.

Jeff Purcell

My suspicions were correct. Rhyme is considered “un-literary”. Still, reading Frost for his rhymes is a joy.

Wolff, Tobias. Old School. United States, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2004. pp44


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